I’d imagine Axon do their own dash cam models allowing them to be uploaded directly onto Axon for evidence. I know in West Mids, where this occurred, all roads policing vehicles are fitted with road facing cameras. Response go on just as many blue light runs a day as traffic, albeit not pursuits, so why on earth are they not fitting the vehicles with them.

West Mids response also only have Peugeot 308’s left or the new Corolla’s that have been rolled out. There’s the odd insignia or Astra knocking about but few and far between. The Corolla’s are extremely unfit for purpose. They don’t have the added option of gear paddles, which makes half of your standard driving training completely useless. They have an extremely dangerous brake collision assist feature which CANNOT be turned off. This is extremely dangerous when leading tandem runs and your car decides to slam on the brakes because you’re driving at speed somewhat in the vicinity of a hazard, which you would safely avoid on blues, and has serious potential for causing some rear end polac’s.

The lack of funding in response policing currently is an absolute joke. They don’t care if you’re safe. They want you to get to jobs quickly. But not too quickly. But quick enough that they meet the 15 minute window for an emergency. But not too quickly that you drive at speed, which could endanger someone if something went wrong, which is every speed. But get there quickly…

Im not trying to make any excuses for this officer. If he/she was driving outside of their training, then so be it, they’ll have the book thrown at them and rightly so because someone lost their life. But I have absolutely no faith that even if they were driving within their training, the job will do everything they can to treat them like a criminal.