ASB: Clampdown on Off road bikes and vehicle crime continues....

Doncaster East Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT) are continuing to clampdown on off-road bikes and vehicle crime as they worked alongside our Roads Policing Group (RPG) officers and Motorcycle And Rural Crime Team (MARCT) during two separate operations

It saw them recover an e-scooter in Dunscroft, which was being driven without insurance, and two stolen motorbikes from Thorne and Sandall Beat Woods.

Every day, the team work hard to gather more intelligence on off-road bikes, with this information then used to coordinate patrols in hotspot areas and take enforcement action.

They utilise a mixture of overt and covert patrols as well as a drone which enables them to track offenders when they try to evade officers by moving into more rural and wooded areas.

🗣️ East NPT Sergeant Simon Lovell said: "Off-road bikes remains one of our top priorities. We recognise the harm and damage they cause to our local communities and I want to assure you that we are acting on the information you provide to us.

"Please continue to report incidents to us and provide as much information as possible. This includes a time, date and specific location, names of any known offenders and/or details of the riders, including what they are wearing, colour of their helmets and physical descriptions.

"We would also ask people to tell us specific details about the bikes as well, including make, model, number plate and colour, for example, and if it is safe to do so, please send through a picture.

"We are also keen to hear where these bikes are being stored."

To report off-road bikes, please contact us on 101, with as much information as possible or contact us online via the South Yorkshire Police website: https://www.southyorkshire.police.uk/ro/report/. 

Please click ‘report antisocial behaviour’ and click through to report ‘vehicles’ followed by ‘speeding or antisocial vehicle use’.