Driving when the Police are behind you in the traffic

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How do you feel when the police are behind you on the road?Even if your kit doing anything wrong does it make you feel uncomfortable?

My dad hates it, he has nothing to hide etc but has been known to turn off the road so they can go ahead lol?
Anyone else the same?

Why would you worry unless you were over the limit, had drugs in your car, driving without insurance etc?

Yes, it makes me uneasy. Same as walking through the green channel at customs, and I'm very law abiding.

Not nervous, but I get great joy from how carefully previously poor drivers start to behave when a police care rocks up...

I certainly drive perfectly when they are behind me!

Although once they were following me for a good minute with their lights on before I realised they were trying to get me to pull over 😳 turns out my insurance company never updated my car number plate on their system despite saying it would be done so it looked like I’d been driving for weeks without insurance! They let me go though when they ran my old plates and confirmed I was insured and I rang the insurance to complain about what they said was an “admin error”…

No not really bothered. It does piss me off when there’s a police on the motorway doing about 65 and a huge line of cars behind frightened to overtake them.

I get nervous, but I've usually been speeding

I don't like it, but I think it stems from when I was a learner. The police car behind me must have got an emergency and they put the lights and siren on. I wasn't expecting it and it gave me a massive shock.

wut?

I always feel really guilty even though I know I'm completely legal

Have a @AWobABobBob

How old are you?

I do think a little extra about my driving when I spot them, but I'm also not afraid to overtake them when they (think they are) doing the speed limit. The reason is that I know I'm not speeding, cruise control is controlling my speed, and I know how much "faster" than the speed indicated on my speedometer I can set cruise control to. (For example, where the speed limit is 70, I can set cruise control to 75 and still not be doing more than 70, according to GPS.)

The reality is that the police aren't remotely interested in you and you'd have to be doing something REALLY stupid/dangerous for them to stop you. The days of them stopping you for a faulty light or minor speeding are long gone - they're no longer proactive and now only react to calls they can't ignore. They're not going to go out looking for minor things.

These days they have "initiatives" when they target certain things, like drink driving, mobile phone use, speeding, no road fund licence, etc etc - they put a lot of resources in place and have a purge on it. And then when the shift ends, it's all forgotten and the police just drive around with their eyes closed again!

I'm on high alert to everything and breathe a sigh of relief when they turn off somewhere.

But then, I once went into a shop and there was a sign saying 'we prosecute all shoplifters' and I thought, ooo, I mustn't shoplift here! I've never shoplifted in my life.

I got pulled over by the UN once. They just wanted to tell me about a problem with my headlights but that was unsettling!

(Not UK I hasten to add. Cyprus!)

It’s in one of those Rivers of London books where the main character says everyone looks guilty when the police talk to them. If they don’t look guilty it’s a sign they must be a hardened criminal.