However what got me was that no more than half a mile and in full view of the patrol cars was a broken down vehicle on the hard shoulder with the driver sat inside, (not a safe place to be) Now I know the police were on an exercise and would have been asigned to the camera van, but surely one of them could have driven the short distance down to the broken down vehicle and advised the driver to get out of the car or prehaps sat behind it with flashing lights on to make the hazard more visable.
I really would have thought safe gaurding a member of the public from a very likely accident was much more important than catching someone who had let their car tax overun by 3 days
