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Emergency vehicle sirens?
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Has something changed recently? I notice that all emergency vehicles, Police, Fire and Ambulance use sirens all day and all night even where it is clearly not required in empty streets for instance, causing massive noise pollution and in the case of the Police giving good advance warning to criminals etc.
Have the recent incidences of accidents involving emergency vehicles bought a directive requiring siren use?
Have the recent incidences of accidents involving emergency vehicles bought a directive requiring siren use?
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If anything I would say the recent spate of incidence have DECREASED siren use, insofaras, drivers are less likely to drive fast and especially drive through red lights when siren are at their most useful.
I know some areas now have the twos and blues monitord externally, to avoid abuse of them and many emergency vehicles now have "black boxes" which will record their activity.
If they use them at late at night, particularly the old bill, may I suggest you simply write to the Inspector of that station and request they (no pun intended) tone it done a bit.
However, I take your point that the sirens will give advanced warning to criminals, but take this obvious example.
If you or a loved one were getting attacked, raped, followed or in immediate personal danger, would you not prefer the villan to get scared and run off before he or she hurts you further?
I assume you are referring to burglars on premises. If this is the case, most decent alarm companies will have a silent detonation for this very purpose. When reported to the police, say via ADT, or direct, this will be flagged up for the officer attending to make a silent approach. They even use terms for such approaches.
Therefore, unless the Bobby is a complete kn0b, which many are, rest assured when the sirens are on he or she is not going to a "burglars on"
I know some areas now have the twos and blues monitord externally, to avoid abuse of them and many emergency vehicles now have "black boxes" which will record their activity.
If they use them at late at night, particularly the old bill, may I suggest you simply write to the Inspector of that station and request they (no pun intended) tone it done a bit.
However, I take your point that the sirens will give advanced warning to criminals, but take this obvious example.
If you or a loved one were getting attacked, raped, followed or in immediate personal danger, would you not prefer the villan to get scared and run off before he or she hurts you further?
I assume you are referring to burglars on premises. If this is the case, most decent alarm companies will have a silent detonation for this very purpose. When reported to the police, say via ADT, or direct, this will be flagged up for the officer attending to make a silent approach. They even use terms for such approaches.
Therefore, unless the Bobby is a complete kn0b, which many are, rest assured when the sirens are on he or she is not going to a "burglars on"
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