Officers believe building their new five-gear vehicle, which has a top speed of 20 miles per hour, will help combat anti-social behaviour.[...]
PC Keith Waller, who will pilot the vehicle, spent 40 hours painstakingly building the replica car with children aged 13 to 16 at Ringwood Comprehensive School.
He insisted that getting involved with the project allowed police to show their "fun side" and made them look "cooler" and "more approachable".
But he also admitted it had made him a laughing stock as people drew comparisons with him and Mr Plod from cartoon series Noddy from Toytown.
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If they would have checked with some builders of 3-wheled fully faired recumbent-bikes like to name a few Go-One, the Waw velomobile, the Quest, the Versatile or the Mango or the Borealis-shell velomobile, they would have been ably to purchase a real cool machine that goes a lot faster than their contraption.