This video has been all over the news.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/18/policeman-filmed-attacking-a-car-put-on-restricted-duties/
When I have been stopped I was only ever asked to leave the car when the officer thought he smelled alcohol, it was lots of aniseed - I hadn't been "drinking" - I was on non alcoholic shorts called "Drivers" which were awful. Officer was polite.
At other times, the officer has left me seated in the car and given me a rollicking for speeding (with added sarcasm - do they have a special course for that?) though luckily no ticket.
Once on being pulled at a drink / drive road block the officer had his normal sniff of the inside of the car and instantly let me go on, saying "mind the prat standing the middle of the road" - his colleague - just out of ear shot taking no account of his own safety!
When the Ex was lit up by an unmarked car late at night (officers wanted to know what she was doing driving around at 3 AM - she was returning from a sick relative) she called the police on 999 and told them an unmarked police car was trying to pull her over. The operator told her to drive to a police station (not local as it was closed at that time). The police car followed her without the lights and an officer came out from the station, again she was asked to provide info but not exit the car. The following officers had absolutely no problem in doing that.
I would be very wary of exiting a car after seeing that video especially as the "pull" seems to have been caused by "computer" error / mistaken identity.
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