This week officers from the Police Neighbourhood Support Teams across Torbay conducted a joint operation together targeting illegal e-bikes and the associated anti-social behaviour in our communities.
In order to conduct this operation, we used a range of assets including uniformed officers, plain clothes officers and CCTV.
During this operation, officers stopped an illegal e-bike after spotting it in Paignton town centre. The rider had other ideas - they took off on foot, ditching a stash of drugs en route. Unfortunately for them, their escape plan didn’t factor in our plain clothes officers who were waiting just a few streets away!
Rider: Detained and arrested.
Drugs: Recovered and seized.
Bike: Seized
Moral of the story: You can run, but you might just jog straight into our plain clothes team!
So if you're thinking of taking your chances, think again! More operations like this are already in motion... we'll be seeing you soon
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