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Traffic Police BMW M5 on the M5 Entrapment?

A rumour has got back to me about an unmarked police car, which is a gold BMW 5 series probably an M5, operating between Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, possibly on the M5 motorway.

Apparently what they're doing is coming up close behind sports cars, and if they react by putting their foot down, they then put the blue light on and pull them over for speeding.

Would they do this? If so is this entrapment?

In all fairness, if I have someone driving to close, I slow down, and will slow down to a painfully slow pace to make a point, and usually that works.

But that's potentially fatal on the motorway, especially if your in the outside lane, and there isn't space in the middle lane to pull over.

Update:

Charles, I haven't had this done to me, my license is clean.

Personally, I agree with you. As said I usually slow down. But there are times on a motorway when that can be more dangerous than speeding.

The question is whether the police are doing this, and whether it is lawfull.

In my own opinion, if the police are tailgating in order to cause motorists to speed, then on a motorway that is more dangerous than speeding.

I am asking whether the police are doing this, and is so is it lawfull.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    No one is forcing you to speed, If you engage in this action it is of your own free will. Just pull to the next lane and let them pass.

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