MISCELLANEOUS JOURNALISTS Journalisu often give the impression that they sre sympathaticto certain causes Dit the best Sdiize is lo ust areporter about as faras you an throw them. More often than not, they'd ‘ell their grandmother for a story, They are ‘usually only inerested in the ‘scandal’ aspect ‘of any stry, and anything they waite willonly bein ine wih the edilonial policy ofthe paper ‘they work for, and looking at nawspapers ia britain hat isn't exacty upliting. Ifa journalist ‘works for the Sun or tha Mister, they wil ‘Gruslly say tat Gey are from the Guardian or Telegmph, spend helt whole lives compromising. Thay ara not allowed fo write ‘what tiey wat 2ethe edior and owner ofthe paper have fizal say, and basically they smoumt to lap dogs. They wil be only 100 Bappy to fingeryou to the Special Branch or the police, who regularly drop into newspaper efficas. All that stn about ‘piping the source’ is jr «Toad ot lolirwcod hogwash, they usualy coms xP ‘either the polce want to Rea, end Carbo taken ovur i toy don't Bacically they're lying scum, and its best to treat them as such, Even Tet wing’ ones often have a sectarian axe to guind. Keep them al arms sngih ifyon do tava to deal with them, and. ever give them your namo. COP CARS AND HOW TO SPOT THEM. “Most cop cars have orange stripes down tha Siow teleevtng bra ero top, whieh Sone ger di gene say, bit the saa Pasurdt do ide around st wateetkod cars fom tine, fo me, under the. quaint fcrumpton ttn on wil atic then Say for them. ween Atmlfed pole ext 0 i ‘ar 20 i, Fust, iho ‘ype. Our mattis pigeon dean in Bias made eum Trova ar of te te tat you'd expedite soe company ‘test and Suny corsa of Fora ler’, Veurtal atom Ford eens, Toe tal of ht Sarsimpeowa sro’ properisn fori, et Soune,idalzow the ganour of io wits red Lathe yng andi a “Cola care, you look, wih hve a tse she Beto af berear vidow avers ‘Se supplier Polse cam do 0 have tse ‘They also do net have suarosla, ferry dico, silly “my other car's « Porsche’ stickers, nodding dogs, recing tim or whiplash aerials. ‘The aerials are usually short, black stubby ‘ones, although this does vary."Tho camcome manly in ‘neural’ colours, dan brown, chocolate brown, olive green etc, Mare vivid colours Hee red, white and bine do occur, ba with lesa Kequency, Tho beat way to amilarise yourself with these cars is just 10 nip downto tha local station and hava a look in the car pare, Khar © while you begin to ‘gonse'them, and spotthema mie off, itiout ‘even thinking about i. (Other obvious giveaways re the presence ‘of to white thug types in the ent, dressed {x ‘cosual’ styl, and, if there are ary more in ‘the back, for some unknown reason one of ‘am will aes his ern stretched oxt long the seit back. Something to do sith pothups, I don’t know. ‘he teal giveaway, however lathe nunber plates. A cae registation wil tell you where {waa registered. The letters that indicate this face the last two in the group of throe. In Tondon, pollce cars are registered in Wert ‘Cental London and are given the codes Ul, ‘UV. GW and UU, So the registations PUV platen. For other parts o Bee cues cecluebenaria aA ‘Membars handbook, ot in the back of the Investigative Reporters Handbook, by Stuart Cheats. 1.