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Re: Policecar computer takes 7 minutes to boot, so they leave the engines running 24 hours a day

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On 3/08/2014 1:25 AM, Whiskers wrote:
> On 2014-07-31, Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> wrote:
>> The practice of leaving car engines running is known as runlock. It
>> allows the police vehicles to keep the computer booted up to allow the
>> control centre to know the exact location at any time of the vehicle, and
>> to tell them where to go. When the engine is switched off it takes about
>> seven minutes to boot up the computer.
>>
>> Ms Honeyman, 53, a rock musician, said: "Almost every time we walk past
>> the police station there is an unattended police vehicle with its engine
>> running. Sometimes there are as many as four police vehicles left
>> unattended with their engines running for periods of an hour and a half,
>> throughout the day, so in effect there is always a police vehicle belting
>> out diesel fumes 24/7 unnecessarily.
>>
>> "Our neighbours in the flats next door to the police station cannot let
>> their baby out on the balcony because of the harmful effects of diesel
>> fumes and we cannot sit in our front yard because of the fumes. I had
>> cancer last year, of course it's impossible to blame police car pollution,
>> but it does make one wonder."
>>
>> <http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/man-arrested-after-complaining-about-stench-from-police-cars-left-with-their-engines-on-9634586.html>
>
> The Highway Code is dead against the practice:
>
> ,<https://www.gov.uk/general-rules-all-drivers-riders-103-to-158/control-of-the-vehicle-117-to-126>
> | The Driver and the Environment
> |
> | 123
> |
> | You MUST NOT leave a parked vehicle unattended with the engine running
> | or leave a vehicle engine running unnecessarily while that vehicle is
> | stationary on a public road. Generally, if the vehicle is stationary and
> | is likely to remain so for more than a couple of minutes, you should
> | apply the parking brake and switch off the engine to reduce emissions
> | and noise pollution. However it is permissible to leave the engine
> | running if the vehicle is stationary in traffic or for diagnosing
> | faults.
> |
> | Law CUR regs 98 & 107
> `----
>
> But the Construction and Use Regulations have exceptions which seem to
> exempt the police:
>
> "where the machinery is required to be worked for a purpose other than
> driving the vehicle"
> <http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1078/regulation/98/made>
>
> "being used for ambulance, fire brigade or police purposes"
> <http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1078/regulation/107/made>
>

Be an interesting question whether the car is being "used" in this context.

Sylvia.

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Policecar computer takes 7 minutes to boot, so they leave the engines running 24 hours a day Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-07-31 13:47 +0200
  Re: Policecar computer takes 7 minutes to boot, so they leave the engines running 24 hours a day Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2014-07-31 19:30 +0100
  Re: Policecar computer takes 7 minutes to boot, so they leave the engines running 24 hours a day "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2014-08-01 07:02 -0300
  Re: Policecar computer takes 7 minutes to boot, so they leave the engines running 24 hours a day Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2014-08-01 10:33 -0300
  Re: Policecar computer takes 7 minutes to boot, so they leave the engines running 24 hours a day Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-08-02 16:25 +0100
    Re: Policecar computer takes 7 minutes to boot, so they leave the engines running 24 hours a day Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-08-03 23:19 +0200
      Re: Policecar computer takes 7 minutes to boot, so they leave the engines running 24 hours a day Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-08-04 01:07 +0100
        Re: Policecar computer takes 7 minutes to boot, so they leave the engines running 24 hours a day Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-08-04 13:38 +0200
      Re: Policecar computer takes 7 minutes to boot, so they leave the engines running 24 hours a day Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2014-08-04 07:29 +0100
        Re: Policecar computer takes 7 minutes to boot, so they leave the engines running 24 hours a day Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-08-04 13:51 +0200
      Re: Policecar computer takes 7 minutes to boot, so they leave the engines running 24 hours a day Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2014-08-04 12:06 +0000
      Re: Policecar computer takes 7 minutes to boot, so they leave the engines running 24 hours a day "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2014-08-04 14:12 +0200
      Re: Policecar computer takes 7 minutes to boot, so they leave the engines running 24 hours a day Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-08-04 14:36 +0200
    Re: Policecar computer takes 7 minutes to boot, so they leave the   engines running 24 hours a day Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-08-07 23:10 +1000

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