I don't know if any other forces have had restriction put in place with regards to the photographing of their Police Vehicles but Merseyside have had one in place since 2003. It was supposed to be reviwed in 2005 but there hasn't been any information about it, why were/would they be in place? and, for so long? We've had some really nice new vehicles recently, its just a shame that we can't photgraph them...

I have never heard of this before! why??

I can't see any reason for this either

Security mabie

Give me an example of how this would breach security

Unmarked maybe but why not marked cars? Not as if they're a secret or something

Wow this is very weird. Maybe some info. available about this under freedom of information act. Seems like a jobsworth office worker needed something to do so enforced this policy. Unmarked vehicles are different but people surely will see marked vehicles every day.

Wonder what happens if you take a picture of one and get caught.. cant think what they would do really .. not much me thinks.

That was what I was thinking!

Well done Commish, I never thought of that! I'll see if I can get some more information through the FOI...

If you want to see a Merseyside Police car pic...here is one

QUICK, QUICK, COVER IT UP!!!!

Can just hear it now "Alright alright calm down calm cown your nicked, you do not have to say anything alright...." and so on so forth

...the next sentance has just got to be 'Please dont hit me again Officer'

Better get my bag packed....here is another pic of Merseysides Police vehicles

OOh Bazza you REBEL!

Yea, sprung to mind knowing that the met's FOI page has loads of policies online. Didn't know if Merseyside did the same sort of thing.

Edit: Just looked at the Merseyside Police FOI Policy Page and doesn't look like there's anything online but I understand you can make requests.