RIDE-ALONG: Metropolitan Police Response to person in River Thames
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- čas přidán 30. 10. 2018
- Ride-Along starts at: 0:17
On-scene footage and responses start at: 7:38
On the 13th October 2018, emergency services in London received a 999 call from the friend of a distressed male who had become trapped in a confined area of the River Thames. Multiple emergency services and units were sent to the scene including the Metropolitan Police, I was on a ride-along at that time and this video shows our response to the scene, as well as various other units arriving with lights and sirens.
The male was pulled from the water safely and taken to hospital after a precarious rescue operation. Many thanks to the Metropolitan Police for allowing me and Blue Light Media to go on a ride-along and post this footage. Also, thank you to all emergency services for your handwork in keeping us safe and healthy! Enjoy!
Video edited with: Cyberlink PowerDirector 16
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EXTRA INFO:
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Country: UK
Force/Service: Metropolitan Police
Vehicle Make/Model: Ford Focus
Role: Incident Response Vehicle
Number Plate: BX14 ELU
Fleet Number: FXT
Camera Used: Sony FDR-AX53
Recorded in: October 2018
Published in: October 2018
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Impressive! Loved seeing the ride along and scene with all the units responding, as well as a few going to different emergencies.
You even passed a few of my spots!
I wonder why they chose to go via Lambeth?
Giving me a run for my money.
How were you even allowed on a ride along? The Met's policy states you have to live in London! :D
Else I'd have been on thousands by now. ;)
Thanks mate! We emailed an Inspector about it and he organised it.
CobraEmergencyVideos so you’re saying I could go on a ride along? I live in London and have done all my birth life👀👀
Charlie B yes, just go on their website and find their email details! i live in wiltshire and wiltshire police do the same thing, it’s called a ride along scene / community observer scheme - i’ve applied and i’m only 15! they accept anyone from 15 and over :)
lol.....i agree with you CobraEmergencyVideos
Great video, love the respect for patient confidentiality 👍
Your best video yet i think, this is the type of video i prefer, rather than 30 seconds of an emergency vehicle driving past, and respect for muting all the sensitive material, i'm sure you will allowed to go on other ride along's, and with the other services as well.
Great Video Tom - Good you co feed sensitive info up and gave emergency services respect they deserved! 👍
Awesome work mate. Had a smile on my face watching this. Keep it up! HART Rock.
Cheers bud! We still need to meet up shortly lol 😁
Absolutely fantastic video really enjoyed it
brilliant, dont get to see rescues like this from London at all, nice
Wait how were you allowed a ride along no freaking way dude
He emailed an inspector, says that in the beginning.
Absolutely awesome video. Thank you so much!
This is brilliant! I've done a few police ride alongs with Gwent police and it was so insightful. I now live in Southampton and had one planned with them but due to current events, they were cancelled.
My whole right ear enjoyed this
11:28 When HART arrive
Great video can’t wait to see more esp with an unmarked unit
Absolutely brilliant! Echoing what other commenters have already said; massive respect for redacting the comms traffic in order to respect the chaps confidentiality.
So, what do you think to blue light driving? 😉
Wow, that is awesome mate! I wish I could go on ride alongs :(
МиљковићSRB the police took me home one time
Bloody epic vid mate, like a UK episode of cops, viewer discretion is advised lol.
This video is epic!!!
A RIDE ALONG!!! How in earth do you manage that???!!... You basically had a mini tour of London too (and the M.I.6 HQ building)..
That was one heck of a ride... Nice
Wow Absolutely Amazing :) keep it up
Great ride! Love those rainbow buttons!
Great video
so cool dude!
Wow Tom , sure is fun ! looks like the waterfairies had a good outing . Im glad you had a good time , what time was this ?
Thanks mate it was about half 8
Lol "Water Faries" we always have a good laugh at their expense bless them 😉
I always make sure to apologise for interrupting their game of volleyball, three course meal, or siesta, whenever we request their attendance 😂
The sound in the vehicle, not the radio communications, sounds like your in the aeroplane or something, gives me the chills. Lol.
So many ambulances for one man he must have been messed up
Massive response, crikey. Glad to know i'd be safe and well looked after by the services there. Can't say the same about rural areas but they are doing their best, Although i'm sure alot of those police and other services were unrequired and could have been helpful elsewhere. :)
I'm sure most of them would've been stood down if they weren't required :)
@@RadTechFred Fair enough, not my place to make a proper judgement on it
@@joeporter5971 Nor mine mate, but I'm guessing they had a quiet night and everyone wanted to see it lol.
Would It Be Possible To Do Another One? I Would Pay GOOD Money To See Other One I Loved It.
3:18 staggered by the stupidity of those cyclists. Spotted a woman crossing the road in front of the police car earlier too. I think this video shows how incredibly stressful it is for Police to get through traffic even with blues and twos when people are oblivious or too stupid to make way. That said that was a LONG WAY around from Victoria to get to Westminster.
PLEASE DO MORE MET POLICE RIDE ALONGS!
In the process of organising them 😎
Ten people in the Thames? That's what you'd think by the number of emergency service vehicles that attended. Wowee.
Awesome mate
Grt melvin
Quick question mate how was your allowed and able to do this ?
That's amazing! What a distance you guys had to drive. And then being first on scene. You would expect central London to have better cover, even if it is a busy evening. Great footage, great vehicles! Anything more calls to come from the ride along?
No more from the ride along this year lol
@@TangoSierraMedia Well hope you had a great shift with them! You got some amazing footage out of it! (Only a bit jealous)
Brilliant. How did u sneak into the back of the car to film this video?
my left ear enjoyed this video
Nice Job
South East 999 Videos
? Are you going to make any more videos like this
Just curious, any info why they went over the water by Victoria and back across again? Wouldn't have saved any time or was details vague about where the insident was? Cheers great video by the way 👍
Not too sure, it was a bit vague at first. Cheers 😎
@@TangoSierraMedia top man keep it up 👍
Me too, don’t understand why they went the long way. North to south to north and back along. Must be a reason.
Big thumbs up for me👍👍
Nice video
Interesting response from LFB, 2 FRUs and 3 pumps
U never know when u may need a pump hehe
Probably to provide more pairs of hands and maybe even ground ladders to reach in.
Great video, made better by the Met allowing you to ride along.
Great one by the met police! I love how people slate them for their relationships with the public but they are better than they are!
Hey! Please can you do another Met ride along??
In my day as a Thames Division officer, the response would be perhaps 3 boats, a shoreside car and we never called the ambulance until we got the casualty onboard, shore-side Firebrigade was never called but their fireboat London Phoneix would attend.
Shout out for the RNLI Tower lifeboat crew who were almost certainly on the scene first and would have made the actual rescue I would think, unless the police or fire boat happened to be around at the time of the shout. So often forgotten about, but they are the 4th emergency service alongside HM Coastguard and almost all are volunteers (though Tower does have a full time crew supplemented by volunteers) Much respect for our lifesavers! :)
They weren't, police were on scene first he said that at the beginning, read before commenting bollocks.
how do you get a ride along in the police car cause i want to please can you tell me
That car sounds nice. What car was it?
Was a Ford Focus 😁
May i ask, do u work as a police officer ??
How about sound out of the right speaker also?
The Bill has taken an odd turn....
Lucky man you got to do this great video and bet it was fun doing a ride along
Was it in the ford, BMW or Vauxhall vehicle
Lucky get to go on ride along but why 2 fire brigades and various police for 1 person falling in a river? BTW only attention in my town Luton is armed police or unmarked police
wow :O
They say emergency services are over stretched, does not look like it, all those emergency vehicles for one person.
People like to Criticize american agencies for sending a lot of equipment to 'small calls' that could 'seemingly be handled with only a few units' but people don't realize how big these operations can be, and as you see here, UK has a very similarly sized response compared to a similar incident in the US. Very good catch and camera skills!
3 pumpers
2 rescues
5 ambulances (2 vans, 1 IRU, 2 fast response vehicles)
1 police van
2 (1?) Police boat
1 police unit (no others were seen)
As the description said. Precarious rescue. And as shown, the more units sent first hand, the less you need to wait for one to respond second hand.
nice what car were you in
Ford Focus, was their 'Bomb car' unit, first response to major incidents or terrorism related situations.
@@TangoSierraMedia thanks
good footage. but bloody hell that was a long travel. was there no other iru units in the area
Man has a little paddle in the Thames and so they send the entire fleet.
Grow up.
theres one guy in the river why are there so many EMS Units?! fire and police i can understand securing the scene and searching for the dud but why like 5 different EMS units 3 of them ambulances...and there saying there dont have enough ambulances to cover the city yeah...see the problem there
There was 1 Ambulance, the rest are Rapid Response Vehicles (RRVs) and HART (Hazardous Area Response Team) vehicles. :D
😫😫 thats engine , cant wait
Was the man ok tho
Yes he was ok. Was taken to St Thomas's.
Was this car petrol or diesel?
Diesel, usually the 1.0!
I jumped on my head
Do another ride along in an undercover police car
8:04 dramatic first response lol
12:07 :)
best bit haha
Huge response, LAS be spending out HART, command officer, ALS and they all arrive before an actual ambulance does - so it seems. LFB also sending tons of resources.
Why’s there 10 officers for 1 guy lol
Action Stations.
If I’m drowning I want more urgency then that! I drive faster then that when I’m late!
They're in London, that says it all they can't go flying to the scene they have to think of their own safety too.
Liam I live in London I’m well aware of where they are, they could of gone way faster then that! Taxis drive with more urgency in London
We were honestly bombing it. The video makes it look slower but if you were in it you'd certainly realize how fast we were going, also considering we were first on scene I don't think that was too bad at all.
Police car, police carrier, 2 LAS rapid response, 2 LAS ambulances, LAS incident response, 4 fire pumps, police boat, LFB fire boat, RNLI boat. Man ‘fell in the Thames’....how? Would be nice to know to justify the cost. This shows one thing. It’s easy to spend someone else’s money.
People like you don't live in the real world...
Far far far better than "Man drowns in river thames, multiple police units responded but were then stood down as the public disagreed with the resources being deployed to the incident".... I can guarantee you'd not be saying the same thing if it was a relative of yours struggling in the water.
It's not a waste of resources at all, the initial unit was going, the serial unit went to assist, (you hear them call up Serial 688 or whatever it is) - I've been on these serial unit aids before, where you are taken off team and put on a carrier with other officers instead for that shift, the normal tasking is to be deployed to violent crime only, however if it's been a Q night (quiet), then for something like this they will attend, more than likely they were driving around on patrol nearby, and decided to go and help out, they were already on duty and on patrol, so were being paid, they are paid regardless of whether they drive around all night and go to no calls, or whether they go to 15 calls, it makes no difference.
The only real cost is the cost of the fuel used..... unlike LFB vehicles, police vehicles actively patrol most of the time, and so the resource cost for "wasted time" is minimal....
8:12 bundle
He had hyperfermia
Honestly they don’t really need all of them emergency crews for that that’s a lot of cop and paramedics and fire brigade what if something more serious happens no disrespect
Agree this happens all over the UK wasting resources & tax payers money its nothing interesting to see only mobilize appropriate responses not the whole recovery.
Its called standard response theres a government contract that states what and how many units respond to incedents categorized by severity
West Midlands Fire exactly my point
kieran mcgettrick I don’t think the need all of them because one person fell in a river I know they would need some people but there was about 4 fire engines that’s why I don’t think they should send so many out because there could be something more serious than that and again I mean no disrespect o the emergency department or the man that fell into the river
@@Mark-jk1hj well I can assure you if something more serious came up they would stand down units from minor incidents to respond
Fuck me that was a bit of an overkill, RNLI probably pulled him out and the water fairy’s took the credit. What a waste of money by LFB and LAS and Hart who jump on the band wagon dressed like runner beans. Great video though.
anyone could have taken that video.
Yes?
Ok, I admit it... It was me, Bob.
But make sure to play along! It's all a big secret!!
Your point, Bob?
🤔
That lfb response could almost be called a waste of tax payers money
The more units first hand, the less you need to call if something goes south. Sometimes they just need manpower, if 1 truck only holds 4-5, they need to send multiple trucks.
Those black cabs are NOT very professional are they? And London is a doss hole, needs to be scrapped and re-built on the lines of Paris.
Car sounds nice , im gonna take a few shots and say its a - Volvo, bmw, ford, atlas
Ford Focus lol. You can see in the video 😁