As a CFR myself I would not want to drive my own car with Blue lights etc. Although as I am in a rural area with many houses haveing Names syuck at the top of a drive it would be helpful to have something that people could see to identify me coming from a shoth distance to enable them to identify where i am needed. I would not want to put MY own car under the stress of speeding Etc on a cold engine doing damage and using light forcing my insurance even higher. I feel we offer an excelent service to the public and I hope this article does not make the public worry when we arrive in our cars. From my experiance I only manage to arrive on scene within the 10 mins around 75% of the time Due to various factors Traffic being a key one during rush hour, at other times finding the location in a country lane can take this long on its own once i get to the lane. if it very close to my location I know alot of the house names but as soon as i respond to villages next to me its a lottery to find unless someone is outside the property. During peek times for the loacl trust i can be on scene for a while on my own the record being 40 mins although this is rare.. i would only be too hapy to have some training in advanced driving. It sound like the Staf trust were using the lights in the same way as the Coatguard as they are ment to switch off al blues at traffic lights. This does get some strange looks as you arrrive at the traffi lights blues going, swith them off wait fo green then switch the bnlues back on again! But they do have a response time of 45 mins NOT 10 Interested to read others comments on this.