By New council and police partnership to tackle antisocial motorcyclists
Members of the public in Humberside have raised growing concerns over antisocial behaviour from motorcyclists to Humberside Police leading to a new partnership initiative with North East Lincolnshire Council.
Humberside Police have so far increased both foot and vehicle patrols in recent years through Operation Yellowfin to reduce road related antisocial behaviour as well as issuing fines under the Public Space Protection Orders.
HumberTalking surveys and community policing have helped to gather information as well as evidence submitted by the public. Humberside Police have also been able to retrospectively issue warning notices, in some cases resulting in vehicles being seized.
Now North East Lincolnshire Council and Humberside Police will be partnering up to install signs in relevant areas along Cleethorpes Seafront, People’s Park, Immingham and the Nunsthorpe Estate. These signs will advise drivers that their vehicles are at risk of being seized if found to be driven in an anti -social manner.
The police have the power to stop drivers suspected of motoring offences such as driving in an antisocial way, ‘causing alarm, distress or annoyance’ and order them to leave an area and not return within 48 hours under Road Traffic Act 1988 and the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014.
Their vehicle can also be seized for this same period of time. If not adhered to drivers and riders could risk their vehicle being seized and if not collected, crushed.
CCTV has also been installed in identified problem locations as well as increased speed detection resources.
Neighbourhood Policing Chief Inspector Paul French said, “Working closely alongside the Local Authority and Humber Fire and Rescue we hope to have a huge impact in improving the lives of local residents and disrupting these riders and drivers disruptive behaviour.”
“All of the existing measures and this new signage really does demonstrate our commitment, along with our communities, to tackle this type of anti -social behaviour.”
“Humberside Fire and Rescue have been an instrumental part of this activity, the use of a drone in tracking vehicles has led to a number of riders being caught and in one case a rider was tracked all the way to their home address where they were arrested and their motorcycle seized.
“Please call us with any information about where and when this is going on, and if possible, who is committing these potential offences, and where are these offending vehicles being kept. When the community works with us and provides this type of information it helps us to better direct our resources and work together to solve the problems causing the greatest concerns in our neighbourhoods.”
