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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
From that article.....
There is no requirement for people driving emergency vehicles to be trained beyond a normal driving licence. Drivers of police, fire and ambulance vehicles who wish to be exempted from speed limits will be required to be officially trained. This rule has been included in a 2006 Act but it has not yet been made law. At present there is no indication as to when it will be made law. There are concerns that there will be too much demand for the existing driver training courses.
I'd be absolutely gobsmacked if there were any services who allowed people who need to be exempt from speed limits to drive without having taken the official training. I suspect most services will self regulate as a matter of best practice. Again I suspect Derek could answer this better
I suspect the only way to find out would be an FOI request.
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A good pal of mine is a paramedic for a private ambulance firm and they undertook blue light training around 2 years ago, prior to that they just did it but then they were a shoddy firm before being taken over.
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Originally Posted by techguyone
No. I see that technology has reached the point that an exemption for radios doesn't need to be there now. Unless the police are still using those curly wired rotary dial earpieces in their cars?
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To much technology in cars imo, the new vw has a 7 inch screen that alerts you to social media updates as you're going along!