Media Coverage
In recent years, the service has faced severe criticism from the media
The Police service was heavily criticised by the Merseyside coroner for its handling of a pursuit in which two 14 year old boys were killed in 2003 after crashing a stolen car into a roadblock set up by Mersey Tunnels officers. The coroner went so far as to recommend that either the policing of the tunnel should be altogether transferred to Merseyside Police, or tunnel officers should be trained to national policing standards.
Mersey Tunnels Police also faced criticism in the tabloid press in March 2009, after a driver was allegedly pulled over by a Tunnels officer for laughing behind the wheel; however the service has no official record of this incident.
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