Police teams Issue Section 59 Warnings To Nuisance Motorists
Operation Meteor: Nine Section 59 Warnings Issued Off-road bikers received a shock at the weekend when members of the Dunstable, Houghton Regis and Leighton Buzzard Local Policing Teams carried out an operation across Central Bedfordshire to curb the issue of nuisance motorists. Bedfordshire Police has been encouraging members of the public to help identify nuisance motorcyclists in an attempt to crackdown on the number of people who think that it is acceptable to ride motorbikes, quad bikes, mopeds, scooters or mini-motos in a dangerous way across public land. On Sunday (Jan 26), a number of those responsible for creating such issues came face-to-face with officers who were assisted by the Priority Anti-Social Behaviour Team, a vehicle examiner and officers from Hertfordshire Police riding off-road motorcycles. The team issued a total of nine Section 59 Orders to riders and the 11 eleven bikes that were being ridden. Inspector Jim Hitch of the Central Local Policing Team, sa