High speed organ transport

[blue virgin]

Not really sure which section to put this in, buy hey!

Does anyone remember anything about, or better still can point me to a website, regarding a very high speed police transfer of a donor organ accross London? I think they were still using the Rover SD1 police cars, so it was a while back, but there was footage from the car camera and it was shown on some program or other a couple of years ago.

It was famous for the short time taken to get accross London, with police motorcyle riders closing off the intersecting streets all the way. I believe at one stage they had to transfer the organ to another car whilst moving as the first was low on petrol.

Hope someone can help......

[Paul22118]

I remember it. What happened was that a normal/usual call came up for an organ transfer somewhere in London. By coincidence there was a training session taking place (all Met traffic patrol vehicles) that was using camera equipment. They either did it or joined in to help or simply monitored it, I cannot remember. The outcome was that a true organ transfer was captured on camera.
The trainer was a Pc called Les Crossland.

[Hellion]

I rememeber watching it tooo but I can't remember what programme it was!

[pacorda]

Hi blue virgin.
The programme was: Police, Camera, Action! narrated by Alistair Burnett. The organ transport run was from Stanstead Airport, Essex to the Whittington Hospital, London. An exchange took place between Essex Police and the Metropolitan Police on the M11. They had a distance of 27 miles to cover in 34 minutes, travelling at speeds of up to 120 mph. They arrived at the hospital with 5 minutes to spare.
Interestingly, the road traffic regulation acts do not allow vehicles being used for organ transport to break the speed limit (or any other traffic law for that matter) not even police cars, although the Police turn a blind eye to their own breaking the law for this purpose but prosecute anyone else including the Ambulance Service.
I taped the organ transport run off the TV, if you want a copy you will have to post a number or email address on this site (I don't know any other way to make contact on this site).

[blue virgin]

Thanks very much for your help eveyone.
Pacorda, I live in Australia, so it may be a bit far to send a copy, but thank you so much for the offer.
I needed to know because I started telling a friend at work about it, then couldn't remember the details!