A POLICE driver has been stopped and accused of speeding by a motorist he had pulled over earlier for exceeding the motorway speed limit.

Neil Saunders, of Dove Court, Chilham, near Ashford, says that he was stopped by a policeman on the M20 in Ashford last Wednesday for travelling at about 76mph only to catch up with the same officer later and accuse him of also speeding.

Mr Saunders, who joined the motorway at Ashford at 9.30am, said: "The officer was in the middle lane, doing about 70mph, causing the traffic behind to bunch up.

"After a mile or two, I accelerated past him at about 76mph and he started to follow me for a short distance, before pulling me over.

I was driving safely. I wasn't driving aggressively.

"I was angry and I said to him 'Haven't you got anything better to do than to pull someone over who wasn't driving dangerously?'." However, Mr Saunders accepted that he had been caught out.

But he added: "What really irked me was that he got back on the motorway, I got behind him and a couple of minutes later he must have been doing 80mph. There were no flashing light. He wasn't on an emergency call."

Mr Saunders caught up with the officer at Junction 7 and flashed him to pull over, which he did. "He denied speeding, but I told him that I had just phoned Ashford police station to complain.

"I'm prepared to phone the officer who stopped me to apologise for throwing my rattle out of my pram, but I'm not prepared to back down."

Rosy Alexander, Weald police spokesman, said: "Any complaint from a member of the public towards a serving officer with Kent Police will be investigated and this is being investigated."