Just seen the pictures of the new Royal leaving hospital. Nice to see the first ride is in a FFRR. Also noticed that the special branch car was a L322. Now I work in central London and see these SB cars a lot. Most are HSE spec, but all have the channels for the roof bars, but I've never seen one with anything on the roof. Anyone know why these channels are fitted?

Police spec with potential to fit extra equipment if required?

BTW they aren't SB but Royalty Protection Group (SO14). John
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I suspect LR do a police version, which will come with certain features as standard that are options on retail models. Forces probably don't order the cars as custom built, they just order a police model in the colour of their choice. They probably also come with other things enabled like, putting the blues and twos on when they beep the horn, extra wiring for radio equipment etc. Some of the Rover cars used to have a "Police Mode" option in the ECU, some folk were activating it thinking it was some secret remap to make the car faster, all it did was allow the ECU to control other functions like the blues and twos. I think ACPO do all the testing and arrange for the specification with manufacturers. Vauxhall used to sell fully kitted up police cars, all a force had to do when taking delivery was put the county crest sticker on the side and add the number on the roof or where ever i expect LR do the same.

I would think they'd fit the roof rails as standard on Police models as it makes it easy to add a light bar if required.

Different branches can spec their vehicles to meet current and potential operational needs. There will always be slight variations. Travelling around in circles again.

But is anyone really going to bother saying "can you delete the roof rails" especially if doing that puts the price up.

Zirconblue wrote:

some folk were activating it thinking it was some secret remap to make the car faster, all it did was allow the ECU to control other functions like the blues and twos.

Well that's Jaguar, my comment was regarding Rover Cars. Activating Police mode on a Rover car does sweet fa unless you have a light bar and sirens.

Jaguar did stripped down XJ-40's at one stage, made lighter with a tweaked engine, in order to allow Police to catch the regular ones.

Most SO14 Range Rovers are armored, apart from a few tons extra weight they won't have any modifications to power....

ACPO have no influence on Met Police Vehicles, they are the only force, sorry, service that come under the control of the Home Office... Pete
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ACPO have no influence on Met Police Vehicles, they are the only force, sorry, service that come under the control of the Home Office...

I was talking about cars, all Met vehicles have to be approved by the Home Office, all provincial forces get approval from their own authorities.... Pete
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That makes much more sense now...  Ed

Hi

Has anyone got a picture of these Roof Bars - not sure what you guys are on about - I have some on one of ours - want to compare

Thanks

Just found a picture:

As I understood it, the OP is talking about the channels to which the roof bars are fitted not the roof bars themselves. John
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I always thought that the roof bars of any type were out on so that in an emergency the officers /SAS can grab onto the car as it speeds away for close protection. This would make more sense if side steps were fitted too Discovery 4 HSE
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That's Clint Eastwood protecting the President. When I did it, many years ago now, there were no roof bars or side steps. Though, come to think of it, at the time running boards weren't all that long past.  John
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