Operation carried out in North Herts

Officers stopped and checked more than 60 vehicles during a pro-active operation in North Herts on Tuesday (23 April).

Members of the North Herts Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT) were joined by colleagues from the East Herts NPT as well as Trading Standards and HM Revenue & Customs in a multi-agency scheme on the A10 between Buntingford and Royston in Reed.

Drivers were stopped by officers and had their details and their vehicles checked, while the users of work vehicles were also spoken to by partner agencies.

North Herts and East Herts CSP continues to suffer the impact of road traffic offences in rural locations with perpetrators showing disregard for the law and committing road traffic offences as well as fly-tipping, rogue trading, thefts and county line drug dealing.

PC Jon Seppings, who organised the operation, said: “I’d like to thank members of the public for their co-operation as we carried out stop checks as part of our ongoing work to weed out perpetrators who show disregard for the law with intent to commit road traffic offences and also those who use the road network to commit crime.

“During the afternoon we stopped more than 60 vehicles including cars, vans and heavy goods vehicles.

“Words of advice were given to some drivers in relation to head lights and tyres which were low on tread, but not to the point of being illegal.

“One driver was issued with a TOR for driving with no insurance and he had his vehicle seized.”

HMRC dip sampled multiple vehicles to ensure that they were using the correct fuel and not carrying anything they shouldn’t be, while North Herts Council officers and Trading Standards assisted to ensure that all vehicles had the appropriate documentation for transferring any waste material.

Seized vehicle