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[hotel21]

.......it will possibly have done triple that as the police are known to leave the engine constantly running.  

Correct, in the main.

At the scene of an accident, if you switch off the engine with the blues and rear reds still on, radio and all the other kit that takes power (two video camera's, video or hard drive video recorder, additional computer for ANPR, VASCAR kit, tracker etc etc) its a ginourmous drain on the electrics, despite an uprated alternator and normally being fitted with two batteries with split charging......

Also, if at the side of the road watching the world go by and you decide to get into traffic quickly to stop someone, time is lost in cranking it over getting it started.  Split seconds, I know, but sometimes traffic gaps are quite short as well.  And it might not want to start clean......