LAW enforcer Ben Cattrall – who pounds the beat in Ashburton – will be off-duty next month when he takes part in the gruelling Monte Carlo or Bust Rally.

PCSO Ben, who lives in Buckfastleigh, is whizzing off to the French Riviera on June 4 in the most outrageously decorated Union Jack VW Beetle, complete with 6,000 lights over the bold-as-British bodywork.

'I've never seen anything like it in my life. It's pretty spectacular,' enthused PCSO Cattrall.