Heavy police activity - high security prison escort convoy

Here is an exciting first for me and probably one of the best catches I’ve ever got, multiple police cars and armed police officers escort highly dangerous prisoners from court to jail.

This escort was undertaken by the operational patrol unit at West Mercia Police. First, a BMW 5 series rides ahead to hold conflicting traffic in the junction and armed officers leave the vehicle and stand guard to ensure no persons or vehicles can interfere with the escort or no prisoners are escaping. The rest of the vehicle are simply to stand guard of the prison van, using their sirens and lights to make their presence known to drivers.

The convoy consists of numerous BMW police cars carrying armed officers as well as an Iveco van which is holding the detainees. There are some very interesting vehicles in the convoy including an awesome new generation BMW X5 demonstrator vehicle which was primarily used by Cleveland Police though I’m not sure if it still belongs to them or West Mercia. At the back of the convoy, there is an unmarked X5 which was converted into a marked vehicle temporarily, probably due to legal reasons, by simply adding a small light bar and a police sign.

Vehicles featured (in order of convoy):

BMW 530d estate
Operational Patrol Unit (Primarily a traffic car)
RSG lights and siren

BMW 530d Saloon
Operational Patrol Unit
Woodway/Whelen lights and siren

BMW X5 SUV
Demonstrator traffic car/armed response vehicle
RSG lights and siren

Iveco Daily
Prison van owned by HM Prison service (presumably)
Unknown brand lights and siren

BMW X5 SUV
Unmarked (converted temporarily to marked) operational patrol unit (primarily used as armed response vehicle)
Woodway/Whelen lights and siren

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