david lang wrote:
Hi All

A bit off topic but...............

Apparently true story from my daughter who is a EMT2 with London
Ambulance.
WPC driving a panda car is involved in a RTA, her panda badly
damaged. Two coppers arrive in a patrol car, remove her from the
wrecked panda and sit her in the back of their patrol car to keep
warm while they sort things out.
Paramedic arrives and gives coppers a serious bollocking for moving
the WPC - who could have had neck or spinal injuries.

Paramedic then examines WPC and decides that she could well have neck
or spinal injuries. He tells the police that the only safe way to
remove her is on a spinal board with a neck brace - and the only way
to do that - is to remove the roof of the police car!

Police protest loudly, but in these cases the paramedics word is
final, so the fire brigade (trying not to laugh) cut the roof off of
a nearly new undamaged patrol car!

Anyone want a police cabriolet?

Dave

I read about a similar thing about a year ago, however it didn't involve the
police - it was with members of the public - I recall that the car whose
roof was removed was only a few weeks old - maybe this was the same
incident!

Jon