Crackdown on drivers sees 99 stopped
Thursday 23rd September 2010, 11:32AM BST.
Nearly 100 motorists were stopped in a major clampdown in north Shropshire.
Police stopped 99 vehicles, made two arrests, seized two vehicles and handed out half a dozen fines for driving offences.
It came during a multi-agency road operation near Whitchurch yesterday.
It is the second time Operation Compound has been held in north Shropshire following a similar operation at Market Drayton last month.
Officers from West Mercia Police teamed up with Cheshire Constabulary, the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency and Shropshire Trading Standards for a second rollout of the operation, this time based at the Midway Truck Stop at Prees.
One car driver was summonsed to court for having no insurance and two cars were seized – one due to the driver having no driving licence and the other due to no insurance. And fixed penalty notices were handed out to drivers committing a variety of offences
A man and a woman were arrested in connection with an alleged assault on behalf of West Midlands Police, after the vehicle they were travelling in was picked up by Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras and stopped. They were taken into custody at Shrewsbury and later handed over to West Midlands officers.
Constable Mick Sturland, who organised the operation, said: “The police work very closely with other agencies, such as VOSA and Trading Standards, to clamp down on those committing offences while on the road.
“As I said after the first operation, these checks will continue and we will deal with offenders.”
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2 arrests, 2 impounded vehicles and 6 fines.
Would West Mercia police like to tell us how much this operation cost the taxpayer?.
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Easy option boy’s and a good revenue raiser.
Lot easier than doing what the watchdog suggested below:
”West Mercia police need to take reports of anti-social behaviour more seriously to “stop the rot” and reclaim the region’s yob-ruled streets, a watchdog has said.
Police have retreated from the streets in the last 30 years and have given up trying to control threatening, rowdy and abusive teenage tearaways”.
Oh well back to the cosy office and a nice warm police car, lot safer nicking drivers.
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