Police follow this van - why? Are the crooks inside?
Is it me, or does the ‘Police follow this van’ sign seen on the back of Group 4 cash trucks these days conjure up images of a Keystone Kops scenario in which the security wagon drives past, the boys in blue read the sign and immediately obey by running after it up the road, truncheons drawn at the ready?
I guess the sign means to infer that somewhere, there is a darkened room with a lot of screens and square-eyed monitoring staff watching blips (perhaps those big blobby ones favoured in Thunderbirds and early James Bond movies) dancing across a map. Chances are though that the following of the vans is a little less intense, although I’m happy to be educated otherwise.
Just to set any minds at ease I’m not planning a heist; just mildly annoyed in a Lynne Truss kind of way at the wording.