[Closed] DOG UNIT

The police?

Yup thats the guy at my work

I have absolutely no idea what you are on about - unless, as jam bo, suggests it's the Police or SAR?

I fancy some of these for the van though

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No, certainly not police! Clapped out Renault Scenics driven by large, bald headed, older buffoons. Think dog walkers or ‘security’

I fear without pics....this thread.......is somewhat useless.

Sure, here’s a picture but not sure it makes the thread any less useless.

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Are you sure you didn't misread it?

Maybe they were selling Doughnuts?

Yes, we've got a local idiot that does this. What's it all about?

A scruffy transit decked out in fake security crap.

Is this a rap thing?

No that’s Gee Unit.

Security is just one of those industries isn’t it. IT’s full of social awkward types, Finance full of psychopaths and Security full of Walts and Bullys.

P-Jay - Member

Security is just one of those industries isn’t it.

I'm still none the wiser.

Houns - Member

No, certainly not police! [b]Clapped out Renault Scenics[/b] driven by large, bald headed, older buffoons.

Doesn't sound like a vehicle that would used in any official security capacity does it? Is this some kind of guy who breeds big aggressive dogs or some nonsese?

There's a towpath near me and there are a few guys who regularly take their dogs for a [s]shit[/s] walk there. Some of them have big vans with decal/stickers of their dogs on the side but no "security" or high vis vis etc

Other than police vehicles I’ve never seen a van decked out like that.

You need to get some GING stickers made up to add to the signwriting.

Maybe they were selling Doughnuts?

I saw a whole load of them in North Wales this summer. Vans all decked out in dog unit decals and blue lights, plus search and rescue decals. Looked just like police vans but full of middle aged men taking themselves very seriously. All a bit weird.

Just to clarify, they’re not police, SAR or legit security..... They’re usually fat, old, moustached types, I think they’re just trying to make their dog walking job look a bit more special, like calling people who make coffee “baristas” (nowt wrong with dog walking or coffee making)

Think Keith Laird 😆

bearnecessities - Member
Sure, here’s a picture but not sure it makes the thread any less useless.

Lol. That picture reminds me of a gif, someone used to post on RADBMX, years ago. Rick Astley was dancing around inside an old man's bottom. Once seen and all that. 😯 😯 😯

Fake dog unit it’s like a more disappointing version of fake taxi

Dog unit vans = rubbish bald builders with a jack Russel type dog. Round my way anyway.

No, certainly not police! Clapped out Renault Scenics driven by large, bald headed, older buffoons. Think dog walkers or ‘security’

You have just described a guy on my street perfectly. Except his Astra van was so clapped out he's just replaced it with a Ford somethingorother.

HIs alsatian is ****** terrifying though.

It's the horse lorries and boxes that say 'Horses' on the side and front that make me wonder... as if it wasn't obvious enough.

AKA Walts.

What is a Caution Horse?

househusband - Member

It's the horse lorries and boxes that say 'Horses' on the side and front that make me wonder.

Well writing [b][i]"I'm considerably richer than you"[/i][/b] would be a tad gauche, and take up too much space now wouldn't it.

"Show dogs in transit" is another one 😆

The ones we saw looked just like police vans, so much so my wife was convinced they were, until I pointed out that the police don't drive 2002 transits and the didn't actually say Police on them. I can't really understand why they don't get pulled for making their vans look that way?

Yip seen these too, driver's are also prone to wearing keys on belt loops and very fashionable Bluetooth headsets, whilst walking round the supermarket, just in case...

And utility belts

I genuinely feel like I’m missing out here. I want to see sad middle aged men in fake police vehicles 🙁

We sat behind such a vehicle in the ferry queue at Calais a few years back. Car done up to look a bit like a police car but clearly not police. Maybe they're ex police cars sold off with the decals still on?

I saw a whole load of them in North Wales this summer. Vans all decked out in dog unit decals and blue lights, plus search and rescue decals. Looked just like police vans but full of middle aged men taking themselves very seriously. All a bit weird.

Google SARDA North wales.

I'm one of those middle aged men (not in Wales) but I use my own car without any decals. I dont take myself too seriously. What I do do though is give up my time to train and look for lost people. No-one gets paid. We are all members of our local mountain rescue teams.

Perhaps one day that lost person might be you or one of your relatives so don't be too judgmental.

Just want to reiterate, these people I’m referring to aren’t any form of SAR. Noujing but respect for those folks

Google SARDA North wales.

I'm one of those middle aged men (not in Wales) but I use my own car without any decals. I dont take myself too seriously. What I do do though is give up my time to train and look for lost people. No-one gets paid. We are all members of our local mountain rescue teams.

Perhaps one day that lost person might be you or one of your relatives so don't be too judgmental.

Wow, calm down. What was that about taking themselves too seriously?
No it wasn't SARDA, who have a very valid purpose and I'm fairly sure don't drive white vans with reflective strips and dog unit decals all over them.

My disagreement with the ones I saw is the degree to which they make themselves look like the Police when they are nothing of the sort.

Some are private security search dogs for drugs, explosives etc

A girl I know is a security officer who has 2 dogs, an Alsatian type that guards building sites overnight and a lab which does drug searches at raves etc.

It's very debatable how close they come to looking like Police without actually saying Police on the vans, uniform etc....

I think what Houns is getting at is stuff a bit like this, but crapper:

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[url= https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10-Ford-Mondeo-2-0TDCi-140-Zetec-Police-DOG-UNIT-K9-VAN-FULL-BATTENBERG-SECURITY-/162740217241 ]Full link here.[/url]

Imagine that, but in a shit Citroen Picasso or Escort van...

You see a few round here, as well those cars with "CCTV" stickers all over them, 'cos they've just bought a dashcam.

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RAYNET do this as well. Serves a purpose but seems a bit 'wannabe'

Well I quite like the "dog section" vehicles.

I like to think they're on their way to a classical music concert, where they're part of the orchestra.

On an entirely tangential basis, I love the word "festooned" 🙂

SARDA are great. Walts are not.

I’m going to do up my zafira as a different animal section. Ideas welcome.

Honey Badger Section sounds good

Python Section....

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[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-40469343/music-loving-dog-upstages-orchestra-in-turkey ]Dog in the orchestra[/url]

Nice. I was thinking more like this though...
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My SARDA mobile kennel (Ford Smax) is fully pimped with a tax disk sized SARDA sticker on the windscreen and nothing else. I do not have any 'Dogs in Transit' stickers, battenburg reflective trim or flashing lights. I do not own a high viz jacket and I hope that I do not come across as a Walt.

We do have a radio harnesses that some people think looks a bit GI Joe / utility, I think it they look more like a tupping harness.

I'm in RAYNET & 4x4 Response.

I have a HiVis jacket (no faux batternburg squares and it's red) as we have to wear them when out on a call but beyond that: no stickers, no flashing lights (unless you count the indicators ;-).

There are some, not in the group I'm in thankfully, who do seem to think they need to be lit up like a Christmas tree which makes me chuckle.

I was at one point sporting a stack of antenna on the roof (PMR, VHF/UHF, HF and Radio 4) but a fat pheasant took two out which set me back over £100 I didn't want to spend esp as I was at the time driving the dog back from the vets from a 3 day stay. Expensive day that. I now remove them and cap the base mounts and only install them when called out.

I do though think I'm missing a trick and will buy a knock-off pair of aviator glasses and some stickers...

I do not own a high viz jacket and I hope that I do not come across as a Walt.

I'm afraid you're sounding a bit....

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Damm. How did you get a photo of my car FlappyFoot?

I'd never heard of RAYNET before this thread but found this whilst googling them. 😆

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franksinatra - Member

We do have a................tupping harness.

Now that has created an image in my mind that I may never recover from

Now that has created an image in my mind that I may never recover from

One for the w bank I assume?

No need to thank me

I have hi viz stripes and chevrons on the back of my works izuzu as we work roadside and quite often at night people crawl past me thinking I'm plod after previously bearing down on me at mach2.

I ain't I fix telecoms networks so fill ya boots

Never heard of these wannabe guys. We use ‘dog unit’ vans all the time for security on remote sites. These guys mostly have labelled up vans and do boring but vital work for little money. They always seem to think the world of their animals. Without them no-one outside of a city would ever have broadband, flood defences or sewerage because anything metallic not buried in the ground would be lifted by someone in a white transit the moment the site closed.

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