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Met Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said it was "unacceptable" for officers to post pictures bragging about hitting pedestrians and damaging police vehicles.

The group on networking website Facebook shows more than 30 pictures of accidents involving police vehicles and is called Yes I Have Had A Polcol - a police collision. Sir Ian said: " If true, this behaviour is completely unacceptable.

"We will conduct a rigorous investigation to find those responsible."

The group invites officers to post pictures and tell how the crashes happened, saying: "If you know what I mean then this is the place for you. If you don't, then keep on moving, there is nothing to see here."

One picture shows a Vauxhall Astra sandwiched between a wall and a lamp post. The person who posted the picture wrote: "See the bus lane behind the car... probably not best to be going 75 down it... with stationary traffic in the carriageway. One muppet turns left, IRV [incident response vehicle] Tbones it, spins off and creams into that teeny-weeny gap."

One picture is of a collision between a marked police vehicle and a small white car. The person who posted it wrote: "I did him a favour. At 82 years old you just shouldn't be on the road and if you are, then most certainly don't go through a green light into the path of an innocent police car."

Another shot shows an unmarked squad car after an apparent collision with a bus in Roman Road, Tower Hamlets, with the words: "The car was fixed and back on the road before I bloody was... they look after the cars a darn site better than they do us!!"