City bag (lids) for R1250RS?

[Ray]

The Metropolitan police Special Escort Group are using R1200RS from about 2017 with City lids on the panniers.
Read an article on them but cannot remember where the lids came from.
At least the SEG have the right bikes!
You might find it on the web but BMW must have the tooling somewhere.
Search youtube for SEG several clips with the new RS showing the city lids.
Alan

Right - a related thread on the other forum.

From BusBoy11 out of Detroit:
Taking a closer look, it appears to me that these are not city lids at all. The city lids were an independently molded alternative to the deeper, standard lid. These appear clearly to just be half-inch thick white caps that are bonded somehow to the original lid, which has just been scalped of half of its width. The Caps appear to be completely flat, so probably only have the half inch rim around them to provide a surface to bond them to the remaining half of the original lid.
From Andygriff:
These bikes were done by a small company in Southern England. I emailed them about the panniers and they said that due to contractual issue they could not supply to any other customer.
My guess is that the Police wanted to make sure no-one could 'imitate' the bikes' look so as to prevent any threat to the VIPs.
I did that based on seeing a distance picture of the 'city lids'. Now I've seen these shots - as someone else said - they appear to be a bit of a bodge. Looks like the pannier lid has been sawn off, a section cut out then the flat piece riveted on