Nottinghamshire Police’s dedicated roads policing unit targeted criminality as well as unsafe drivers during an operation using an unmarked lorry cab.
Team members used an HGV tractor unit, supplied by National Highways, which enabled them to observe driver behaviour from an elevated position during patrols on main routes.
The HGV allows police officers to film evidence of unsafe and distracting driving behaviour by pulling alongside vehicles and then the offending drivers are intercepted and pulled over safely by police cars following behind.
Drivers were given safety advice after being spotted not wearing seatbelts and a man was reported for driving while on his mobile phone as the operation focused on a stretch of the A1 on Thursday (28 September 2023).
Other key routes, including the M1 and Hermitage Lane in Mansfield, were also targeted during the week of action, the overall aim of which was to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured on the roads and to improve road safety using a mixture of engagement, education, and enforcement.
While patrolling the roads on Thursday, the roads policing unit responded spontaneously after reports were received of a suspected cloned van and also a car towing a caravan which was suspected to have been involved in criminality.
Both drivers were swiftly stopped and spoken to while officer carried out checks on the vehicles. The car driver was also reported after being caught driving while using a mobile phone.
Another driver was also grateful for the team’s invention after his Mercedes broke down on a slip road and an officer was able to safely escort him to a nearby truck stop so he could get assistance.
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