While I was on SLEX northbound with all of the rush hour traffic this morning, I noticed a police-configured (strobe light on a pole at the rearmost part of the bike, wang-wang) motorbike with rear plate 'M2' escorting a Black E-150 with private plates 'BFV-808'. They took the lane going to Sucat all the way until the toll plaza and then swerved (there's a big "No Swerving sign before the Sucat exit) to join the rest of the pack lined up to go further northward. Come to think of it, I've seen this duo a few times before.

What actually caught my attention was that the motorbike rider wasn't in police uniform, or in a uniform at all. He was in jeans and in a leather vest, the one that Mad Dog riders would usually wear, while escorting the E-150. A big colorful tattoo was all that was missing.

Just for the sake of argument, since realistically these power wielders are incorrigible, aren't police escorts supposed to be in uniform? Is 'M2' a real plate? Is the E-150, having a private plate, allowed to have an escort?