If that's the case I'll need to drive a bit more carefully!
There was a brief article in last month's ConnexionFrance, an expat English language newspaper I buy occasionally, which said "Britain and Ireland were given until May this year to comply with an EU directive on cross-border traffic offences". That implies that they're not complying with it at the moment and I would have thought that included not having instant access to tax / insurance / MOT status in the way UK police do. It's only my guess though. If the German police can get that info via a phone call it suggests at least some of the mechanisms are in place.
I use the Calais autoroute quite often and there's always police 30/40/50 miles out - particularly on a Sunday morning when loads of British cars are heading for the ferry and the autoroute's empty. Last month we saw two of the warp speeders being "diverted" after they'd gone through the peage near St Omer; it must be like shooting fish in a barrel.
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