Welcome! Today we’re following a Dutch emergency team with police motor vehicles and an ambulance. Paramedics are called in for a medical emergency. Their patient is in mortal danger and needs to be transported to the University Medical Centre in Leiden as fast as possible. To get there in time they request an emergency escort from the police. The emergency room approves and four police officers on bikes are sent in.
Leiden is a midsized densely populated city in the west of the Netherlands. In normal traffic, this route will take about 30 minutes, let’s see how fast these officers get there.
Source: Verkeerspolitie Den Haag
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Love that they still use the good old “nee naws” AND whistles in the Netherlands!!😂😂 Good job by these guys, though if I were to be really critical I felt they got a bit too far ahead of the ambulance on a couple of occasions.
As a dutchie: Such a great video. Been in a dutch ambulance 2 times, and did not have such impressive escorte, but it is great to know that it exists in cities that really need …
One funny (or should I say worrysome ?) note around 14.35, where the officer had to push a button to take a ticket and open the gates for the rets of the escorte to get in … Almost perfect, but some improvements ahead !
Nice but European police sirens are so weird sounding. Sounds like my in laws yammering about inane topics I don’t care about.
Bro the sirens are the most annoying things on the planet😂
Seeing a working and civilised society is a breath of fresh air isn't it?
Much love from the UK.
Would never work in the UK, Most drivers are utterly useless, too aggressive and impatient.
The guy we were watching was on fire.
if one rider is staying with the ambulance and calling the route on the fly to the other 3 outriders, then that is the method taught by the metropolitan police SEG (special escort group), who train police form all around the world in this method, though for very busy places like the centre of London they opt for whistles rather than sirens, as sirens are too common, unlike whistles.
In Austria, they would simply send a helicopter.
This would have never been able in the USA. People don’t pull over for emergency vehicles here. It is tough.
This would be a good thing in Germany but I think they wouldn't like to pay the extra officers to be always on duty
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4 minutes in and every vehicle slow to move over has german plates. I'm starting to see a pattern here…
Ok, here we go.
There is a escort of 3 or more motorcycles, there are also situations where there is 1 police car and 2 motorcycle officers.
The two officers infront are called ''spitsers'' the officer in either the car or on the motorcycle that is close escort to the ambulance is the commander. There will also in other cases be a tail vehicle. the Ambulance being a first responder vehicle with full sirens and alarms going is automaticly the tail vehicle.
When a officer appears on say a intersection. And its clogged. The moment a officer appears with full lights and sirenes and moves his hand up its a halt command. That officer is now in charge of that intersection. All traffic is commanded to stop, regardless of lights, right of way or other circumstances. The officer will then direct traffic as needed, These commands may not be disregarded. If the officer tells you to move, you move. You are however not allowed to break the speed limit to conform to the officers command. The normal traffic rules resume once the officer who gave the halt command, leaves the intersection.
Officers under these circumstances ( I.e escort ) Are allowed to do things usually not permitted. Pass on the right, go trough red, break the speed limit exc, the goal is the ambulance does not stop rolling so the patient and paramedics treating him have the calmest enviornment possible.
Commands that the police use are part of the Dutch driving examination. In my time several questions would be on handsignals exc and what they mean.
This is excellent communication and coordination
No medivacs?
Brilliantly efficient protocol and team work. I'm guessing this is a specialist team.
It's just a well coordinated game of leapfrog.
Great job from the police escort. No chance it would go that smoothly in any American city.
A hand in the air is signaling "Yellow light" which means stop! That counts for ALL directions and ALL types of traffic – bicycles and pedestrians included. An office in ANY lane with a hand in the air shuts down the WHOLE intersection. So please follow that.
Verkeerspolitie Den Haag is amazing!
That's a long drive to the hospital.
Team work wasnt too shabby
3:48 youre not allowed to go over the speed limit in The Netherlands where this is filmed, even to clear the way. You're also not allowed to go through red, unless directed by police or traffic warden. A emergency vehicle (defined as a vehicle displaying flashing blue lights and sounding an audible signal) alone never allows you to break traffic regulations in The Netherlands.
The The Hague/Rotterdam/Leiden region is very lucky they have a specialized and dedicated team of traffic police at their disposal. Other major cities (like Amsterdam) do not, which is a shame really. But it is always awesome and intense to watch the video’s of the @VDH
This will not happen in South Africa at all. Maybe in some places in South Africa. I like to watch the video's. Its nice to see the support the cops receive in Europe.
I find it interesting to see that the ones that had slower reaction times were the ones with a non-Dutch license plate 😅
Though it's not really illogical, it still baffles me.
Sadly we don't have escorts like this in Czechia. But at least we have rendez vous system, in serious cases doctor car response in advance of the ambulance, provides first major care to the patient before the ambulance van arrives. On the way back to the hospital, I saw in multiple cases doctor car driving slowly through the intersection and therefore block it for upcoming ambulance. But it's not a rule and always a case, we don't have special services like this.
How do you not see an incoming bike with lights on
How do people not realize breaking the law is perfectly okay if no one is going to enforce the law you are breaking. If you see flashing lights get out of the dam way.
7:20 that road is notorious for over 60 or so years. Ever since the 1960’s there were plans to build additional roads leading from this highway to Leiden, Voorschoten and the towns surrounding. As mentioned at the start of this video, it’s densely populated and each plan hit rock bottom. Now after all those years a kilometers long tunnel is being build to relieve this road and to ensure smooth circulation. Fun fact I te,member a pass over another road, but the road never was build. After some 20 years it finally was demolished.
Note: In the UK, you can't exceed the speed limit, and you can't go through a red light to move for an emergency vehicle. If a police officer specifically directs you through a red light, then this is different.
That last biker wanted to stop at least one time lmao😂😂
I like your professional work very much. 👍
In the UK you cannot go through a red traffic light or speed to make way for an emergency vehicle, as this would be breaking the law. Emergency drivers/riders know this.
Is there a version without narration?
alle complimenten naar de agenten aan hun rijvaardigheid diepe buiging
Everybody has to know that in the netherlands we say "nood breekt wet" witch means "emergency breaks rule"
My mousedriver could do better, my mousewheel jumps up and down… or was that not what you meant?
Had this done for me in the uk as i was a golden hour patient massive respect for all concerned
these officers seem to be naturals at their job. Good work officers!
I'm confused why you said at 7:50 "they ignored him." They absolutely didn't 'ignore him'. Braking out of nowhere without instructions visible to everyone would only cause crashes. You can't just brake and expect the person behind you to notice. That's extremely dangerous. Everyone did exactly as they were supposed to act. And later "hit the officer"? What? It's not even close, there's still like 3 meter distance between them in the last frame. I find it a bit too much how you make conclusions that aren't there, it's annoying.
Imagine this without police escort to clear ahead intersections.. this would take atleast 4x as long..
3:51 I once drove a vehicle which I wasn’t Licensed to drive because I had 12 Police Officers onboard and an 8 Motorcycle Police Escort.
🥰🥰🥰🥹🫂
Great video, commentary dogshit
Incredible work officers!
Looks pretty cool, all the best to the patient.
shout-out to buslanes!
BMWs?