Police Work with Partners on Vehicle Operation

During an operation with the Police OPU and Rural Crime Team, plus partner agencies on Monday, a Mitsubishi L200 was examined along with the trailer and mini digger it was towing.
The 61 year old Driver had numerous previous imprisonments for various offences including burglary, theft and driving while disqualified.
Although his last driving disqualification period had ended he was still uninsured and had only ever held a provisional licence that was now expired.
The vehicle was seized and enquiries are ongoing to try and find the true identity of the resprayed mini digger. With 6 points already in his expired provisional licence the Driver is looking at a possible 7th driving disqualification.
The Operation in South Warwickshire was conducted with Highways England, Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency, Datatag ID Limited, the National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service and our own OPU plus rural crime officers from Warwickshire Police.

On the same day BBC Midlands broadcast their investigation into illegal red diesel and the pictured van was one of our first customers.  You can watch the BBC One Inside Out Investigation on iPlayer by visiting www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000f3x9

The Rural Crime Team focus for the day was towards vehicles towing trailers, horseboxes, quads and farming machinery. We made use of direct contacts with Partners who weren’t on the ground with us such as The Equipment Register – TER, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency and NCC CRiS to help search vehicle, equipment and driver records.