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patrol car

a police car with a radio telephone used for patrolling streets and motorways
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One of the suspects, 20, is then said to have "come into contact with a police car" and suffered minor injuries near the Tesco supermarket in Spring Hill.
The pedestrian was walking on Warwick Road, near the junction with Kensington High Street,Kensingtonwhen the marked police car crashed into her.
A resident, who asked not to be named, said: "I had just got back from work and saw all the police cars.
The witness said two people in the Renault Clio had made off on foot after "slamming" on the handbrake and colliding with the police car.
The police car sustained damage to its front end yesterday evening but no one was seriously injured.
The blue BMW police car can be seen sliding into the stream as a white Audi it is chasing slams headfirst into the water.
GMP said the offenders 'rammed' a responding police car before a pursuit began.
They were being used to cover the lights to help prevent members of the public identifying it as a police car when the lights were not in use.
"Some people who saw it told us the police car tried to over-take the the other car and side-swiped it.
No one was seriously injured, but the accident badly damaged the front end of the Peugeot police car and the front driver's side of the Fiesta, which was driven by a member of the public.
After being pursued by a police car, the moped collided with a second police car moving in opposite direction.
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