Flashing Lights

[Hair Cut]

Can someone tell me why Police and recovery tucks drive around with beacons flashing on their vehicles. I was driving around an island this morning and a Police car approached from the other direction with its lights flashing so I instinctively stopped, but he also stopped and waved me on !!!

Also, I had a brief period driving a Recovery truck we were only allowed to use beacons at the scene of an accident or breakdown or when towing a second vehicle on a spec-lift. Here they drive around with them on all the time.... Ah !! just thought perhaps they don't know how to switch them off.

[Soner]

Police lights on when they are on duty. Just to let people know that they are on duty. I had similar issue years back, he was surprised I stopped for no reason.

[Hair Cut]

Police lights on when they are on duty. Just to let people know that they are on duty. I had similar issue years back, he was surprised I stopped for no reason.

So when the lights are off they are on a "Jolly" or off for a Kabab?

[Soner]

As far as I know. Lights on means on patrol.

[thornaby]

I passed a car the other day (during daytime) that had lights blazing under its front number plate which was impossible to see or read. I may be wrong but can only think it was there to defeat the cctv system fitted around town.