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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-508765/Police-officers-caught-boasting-car-crashes-shocking-new-Facebook-group.htmlPolice officers caught boasting about car crashes in shocking new Facebook group
Last updated at 16:04 17 januari 2008
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Car crashes are not normally considered fitting subjects for jokes, particularly when innocent bystanders have been injured in the process.
And you certainly wouldn't expect police officers to be the ones caught joking and bragging about their serious accidents.
But a shocking new group on networking website Facebok shows more than 30 pictures of accidents involving police vehicles and is called Yes I Have Had A Polcol ? a police collision.
Alongside the pictures, police officers boast and make joking references to the people they have injured in their various car crashes.
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http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/01_03/PolColFB1_468x353.jpgTight squeeze: After veering off the road, the driver of this car somehow managed to fit his vehicle into the gap between a lamp post and a wall
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One police officer even boasts about how many crashes a colleague of his has had, saying:
"What's everyone's "impressive" record?
A DC I know claimed to have had 4 POLCOLS in his first 2 years of driving. Anyone top that?"
A Scotland Yard inquiry is now being launched into the group.
It includes boasts about collisions with a drunk who suffered a broken leg and an 82-year-old driver hit by a police car as he passed a green light.
The group invites officers to post pictures and tell how the crashes happened, saying:
"If you know what I mean then this is the place for you. If you don't, then keep on moving, there is nothing to see here."
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http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/01_03/PolColFB2_468x342.jpgThis police car was left a complete write-off after it was wrapped around a lamp post in a high-speed smash
One picture shows a Vauxhall Astra sandwiched between a wall and a lamppost.
The person who posted the picture wrote: "See the bus lane behind the car ? probably not best to be going 75 down it ? with stationary traffic in the carriageway. One muppet turns left, IRV [incident response vehicle] T-bones it, spins off and creams into that teeny weeny gap where it was sat."
Another picture showing a wrecked BMW comments on the crowd behind police lines:
"This one's got to be top of the Polcol league at the moment. Particularly love how many gawpers there are on the other side of the park!"
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http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/01_03/PolColFB3_468x364.jpgThis police officer seems particularly pleased with himself as he gives the thumbs-up to the camera after crashing his car
One Met officer posted a picture of a collision between a marked police vehicle and a small white car and wrote: "I did him a favour. At 82 years old you just shouldn't be on the road and if you are, then most certainly don't go through a green light into the path of an innocent police car."
One picture shows an unmarked "Q car" after an apparent collision with a bus in Roman Road in Tower Hamlets.
The driver wrote: "The car was fixed and back on the road before I bloody was ? they look after the cars a darn site better than they do us!!"
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http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/01_03/PolColFB4_468x330.jpgLess dramatic perhaps but this car looks well and truly stuck in a gap in the road
In an apparent reference to the officer's partner, another Facebook member wrote: "Heard Michelle has booked a month in the Maldives with the claim money!! Ching Ching !!"
Met Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said it was ?totally unacceptable? for officers to post pictures bragging about hitting pedestrians and damaging police cars and vans.
Sir Ian said: "If true, this behaviour is completely unacceptable. We will conduct a rigorous investigation to find those responsible."
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/01_03/PolColFB5_468x317.jpgThis Rapid Response car looks as though it has been compacted
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/01_03/PolColFB6_468x518.jpgThe result of a head-on collision