The long arm of the plod.....

threedaymonk As reported to me by a colleague who saw this a couple of weeks ago: A cyclist went through a red on the Cut up by Waterloo. Immediately, the driver of an unmarked Porsche sitting nearby turned on his flashing blue lights and pursued the cyclist, pulling him over a few metres later.
I didn't know the OB had such flash cars.

and if he had ridden another 200 hundred yards the cop car would have got stuck in traffic whilst the cyclist could have cut through to the really nice pavements (in both directions) all along the thames

maybe the Porsche could have called for helicopter back up though