100 vehicles stopped in crime crackdown in Bradford

9:00am Friday 8th March 2013 in News Photograph of the Author By Rhys Thomas, T&A Reporter

More than 100 vehicles were stopped by police in Bradford yesterday as part of an operation to target criminals who use the district’s road networks.

As part of Operation Northolt, officers were stationed in Barkerend and Manningham between 10am and 5pm with a brief to disrupt the everyday comings and goings of criminals.

Chief Inspector Paul Hepworth, who led the operation, hailed the day as a complete success, saying: “It was a really good day in Bradford. I was expecting us to do well, and we did.”

Officers stopped a total of 119 vehicles for various offences - and they even managed to arrest two people for theft from a vehicle on Harewood Street.

Of the vehicles stopped, 85 were transferred to police partner agencies such as VOSA for having things wrong with them. The issues included problems such as not being compliant with private hire rules and using red diesel.

A further 20 vehicles were collared for traffic offences such as dangerous parking and having tinted windows that were too dark.

Fourteen vehicles were seized for being unlicensed or uninsured.

Chf Insp Hepworth said: “It is all about tackling criminals, not about innocent members of the public. It is criminals using vehicles in Bradford that we are targeting.

“This operation is an everyday occurence – it was not a one-off. We are highlighting it so that the public is aware of what we are doing every day.”

Police work with colleagues from The Motor Insurance Bureau, Environment Agency, VOSA, Benefit Fraud, HM Revenue and Customs and private hire enforcement, as well as using technology such as the Automatic Number Plate Recognition system (ANPR), to catch criminals in the act.

Chf Insp Hepworth said: “While criminals continue to use West Yorkshire's road networks we continue to run operations like this.

“The advantage of intelligence-led deployment means that the police are able to accurately target active criminals and pursue them for traffic offences to disrupt their criminality. This approach ensures that ordinary motorists are not being swept up into stop checks in a blanket approach and criminals are then deprived of the roads.”

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Apollo says...
9:07am Fri 8 Mar 13

So out of a total of 119 vehicles stopped 105 had something wrong wth them!

It beggars belief.

Do it every day please.

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Cooperlane2 says...
9:29am Fri 8 Mar 13

A pretty damning statistic, especially for the 'professional' drivers who were caught.

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JessWilson says...
9:30am Fri 8 Mar 13

Where is our omnipresent David Ward fighting for reduced insurance when we need him...oh wait there's a reason its so high.

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spinnekop says...
9:36am Fri 8 Mar 13

Iceburg + sharp pointy thing.

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tyker2 says...
9:38am Fri 8 Mar 13

do it everyday please:take scum off the roads.

Another measure could be used.

Petrol stations have number plate recognition cameras to coulter bilking. Extend this computerised computer system to stop cars getting petrol which ae shown as being without tax,insurance or MOT. THE TECNOLOGY IS THERE AND CAN BE USED. It can be used to fire information to the police immediately

Starve these people of fuel and the rest will follow.

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Apollo says...
9:43am Fri 8 Mar 13

tyker2 wrote:
do it everyday please:take scum off the roads. Another measure could be used. Petrol stations have number plate recognition cameras to coulter bilking. Extend this computerised computer system to stop cars getting petrol which ae shown as being without tax,insurance or MOT. THE TECNOLOGY IS THERE AND CAN BE USED. It can be used to fire information to the police immediately Starve these people of fuel and the rest will follow.
Not if they are using red diesel.

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tyker2 says...
10:11am Fri 8 Mar 13

agreed but main offences are no insurance,mot or tax or registered keeper.

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Joedavid says...
10:16am Fri 8 Mar 13

Well done.
Keep on doing it please.

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Albion. says...
10:18am Fri 8 Mar 13

It seems that Manningham and Barkerend could prove very lucrative for this type of operation, if this is a sample.
I really wish that they could do it everyday (as others have suggested), it would be the only way to eradicate this type of (all too common) offending.
Well done the Bill!

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birday says...
10:23am Fri 8 Mar 13

Thank you!
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Please can we have more of these kinds of measures taking place in Bradford.
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Lots of money frm llegal activities is being laundered via property development. Would like to see Police, HM Revenue and Customs, Benefits Fraud Agency etc doing more to tackle the opportunities to do this - there are far far too many cash in hand payments which enable criminals to launder money.

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thruth9211 says...
11:58am Fri 8 Mar 13

West yorkshire police, are they really useful

They have the technology to track and trace people without mot and insurance, but turn a blind eye. Many cars in bradford are un insured


50% of people use mobiles when driving, but some how the police never take notice

Tuffer penaltys are required

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JAtkinson says...
12:02pm Fri 8 Mar 13

C14% of those stopped were uninsured - frightening.

If this has proved such a success, it must be done more frequently. Uninsured or otherwise illegal drivers should be scared to drive.

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Apollo says...
12:36pm Fri 8 Mar 13

Unfortunately this small sample shows how out of control the situation really is in Bradford.

It will not be brought back under control until or unless the Police and other agencies take it seriously.

While ever people think they have a better than even chance of getting away with no insurance, tax, MOT, driving on red diesel, using mobiles or a host of other motoring defects they will take the chance.

The penalties are derisory although taking cars off people is probably the ultimate deterrent.

I am no fan of the Police in Bradford. I find them to be badly led and largely ineffectual. However, in this case I am prepared to accept that they appear to have started, at long last, to begin to regain some of my faith in them.

The proof will be in how often they do this sort of thing and not just as occasional publicity stunts.

It needs to be done on the daily and nightly basis until some in the community finally get the message.

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tyker2 says...
12:42pm Fri 8 Mar 13

if you want to see illegal cars off the road and you see a car without valid road tax report it to the police and see what happens

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Apollo says...
1:12pm Fri 8 Mar 13

tyker2 wrote:
if you want to see illegal cars off the road and you see a car without valid road tax report it to the police and see what happens
Largely you will see nothing happening.

That is the problem. The Police do not take it seriously.

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spinnekop says...
1:15pm Fri 8 Mar 13

tyker2 wrote:
if you want to see illegal cars off the road and you see a car without valid road tax report it to the police and see what happens
Sod all Tyker.

And while the police are turning in cahoots with the Toothless and Gutless heres a breach of the Data Protection Act one has to agree to in order to post on the above mentioned battleground masqurading as a forum

"Third party policies?
Third parties and websites linked to our site may collect or use information about you. We are not liable for the information practices of unconnected companies or other persons except as may be required by law. "

Aye right. So thats where all these P.P.I. claim callers, junk emails and ambulance chasers found a way into my secluded multi ethnic sangrid world then eh?

Time I got me a pack of unicorns me thinks!

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tyker2 says...
2:06pm Fri 8 Mar 13

spinnekop wrote:
tyker2 wrote:
if you want to see illegal cars off the road and you see a car without valid road tax report it to the police and see what happens
Sod all Tyker.

And while the police are turning in cahoots with the Toothless and Gutless heres a breach of the Data Protection Act one has to agree to in order to post on the above mentioned battleground masqurading as a forum

"Third party policies?
Third parties and websites linked to our site may collect or use information about you. We are not liable for the information practices of unconnected companies or other persons except as may be required by law. "

Aye right. So thats where all these P.P.I. claim callers, junk emails and ambulance chasers found a way into my secluded multi ethnic sangrid world then eh?

Time I got me a pack of unicorns me thinks!
that was my very point!

report it to the dvla and they will write to...erm no registered keeper.

iFor this whole lot to work the bobby on the street walking around will catch far more for less money.

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bd7 helper says...
2:16pm Fri 8 Mar 13

THE POLICE ARE DOING SUM WORK AT LAST. WOW...GET THEM A MEDAL FOR A DAYS WORK...

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Not so simple says...
6:18pm Fri 8 Mar 13

Brilliant.

More operations of this nature please.

Too many illegal vehicles on the roads.

As a taxpayer I want the success of this and further operations to be used to further the insurance premiums we are blackmailed to pay.

Failure to reduce insurance costs will mean that such operations are only part successful.

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