However, instead of catching the gang, they encountered an unmarked police car in an unlit street.
She recalls seeing a police car leaving the scene and a man who worked at the local municipality talking on his cellphone.
She decided on the latter course, and was driven in a police car to the gangway of the aeroplane.
The detectives in the police car thought the driver was driving so dangerously that it was not safe to overtake him.
At the moment he knows that if a police car has driven past he is not likely to see another for a couple of hours.
Every police car quite rightly goes about with wireless apparatus.
On recovering from the fit he was taken home in a police car and put to bed.
Instead, that day, two senior officers of the serious crime squad arrived to give him a special escort in a police car.