Blues and twos

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Blues and twos is a colloquial term that refers to the blue flashing lights and two-tone sirens that the Emergency Services in the UK use when responding to an incident. Its use is restricted to:

Police
Fire
Ambulance
Mountain rescue - both military and civil
Coastguard
Mine Rescue
Human Tissue & Transplant
Forestry Commission Fire Service
Army Bomb Disposal
Naval Nuclear Monitoring
Blood Transfusions Services
RAF Armament Support
Royal National Lifeboat Institution
HM Revenue and Customs when investigating serious crimes

Although legally no qualification other than a driving license is required to drive 'blues and twos', the above organisations usually insist that their drivers have taken a training course in high-speed driving and the incident that they are responding to is critical enough to put action into what could possibly be dangerous driving.

Blues and Twos was also the title of a fly-on-the-wall documentary series in the UK that followed one crew from a different emergency service in each episode.