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Cheers. I may have recounted this incident but in my case the car was coming in the opposite direction, and veered into my carriageway to apprehend a suspect running towards me, along the pavement to my left.
The driver clearly didn't see me. To be fair it was dark and I wasn't fantastically well-lit. Not to mention the fact it was raining.
Anyway, at the last minute we both swerve to avoid each other and he clips my rear rack, knocking me down. Driver (or passenger?) screams at me to, "stay there, we're chasing a gunman," or something similar.
They drive off and I wait for maybe five mins. More cars come flying past. Car comes back round the block eventually, and they make a full report with my name, etc. Very apologetic and promise to re-imburse for damages. Copper rings me up maybe two days later to find out the extent of the damages and drops of a gift card. I remember him saying he can easily get into my block of flats because he has a skeleton key.
He also told me the incident formed a big part of the post-mortem on that particular operation, and that they were "learning lessons" from it.
So my experience differs greatly from @danstuff's.
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I don't know if it's the same with unmarked detective cars, but if trafpol are in an incident, nobody can leave the scene until a supervising officer attends the scene. I was involved in an accident caused by trafpol, they ignored us as though their dangerous driving hadn't caused the accident, but luckily my mate who was in the car that got damaged, his step-dad is trafpol. Everyone got a bollocking and someone came round to my mate's house to personally apologise. Police insurance covered everything.