“This operation was a joint venture between the armed response teams, roads policing teams, CID, neighbourhoods teams and district response teams. We were also joined by the mainland-based Commercial Vehicle Unit. “The aim of this operation was in part to identify those criminals who use the Island’s road network to commit crime.
“Police have also been conducting high visibility patrols across the Island. As a result of that, we arrested five people for driving under the influence of drugs, and identified a number of moving traffic offences such as having no insurance and driving without a driving licence. “Teams across the Island have also been out developing drugs intelligence, and we’ve also arrested a number of outstanding suspects for offences such as stalking, domestic abuse and making threats to kill.”
As a result of the operation, a number of road offences were identified and dealt with including:
- 5 drivers arrested on suspicion of drug driving, in addition to multiple other drug wipes conducted on drivers
- 4 drivers dealt with for having no insurance
- 1 driver dealt with for driving without a licence
- 2 vehicles seized for having no tax, and a further vehicle stopped for having no tax (which was then purchased at the roadside)2 drivers caught using their mobile phones
- 1 driver caught speeding
- 1 driver dealt with for having a defective tyre
- 2 drivers dealt with for having no MOT
- 1 driver dealt with for having an insecure load
- 1 driver dealt with for a vehicle defect
A number of vehicles were also searched for drugs, however no drugs were located on this occasion. Teams also conducted further patrols and intelligence-gathering efforts relating to drugs supply and production on the Isle of Wight.
Is this operation for one week only? We need this police presence every day and night of the year.
Speeding is rife on the Island.
2 hour bus journey between Ryde and Newport on Wednesday was also pretty criminal.
Nothing to do with the rozzers. That was dopey island roads letting bt cut down trees opposite the old police station during the day.
Didn’t stop those rogue traders in East Cowes till someone called. Why can’t the anpr cameras at ferry terminals be linked up to police?. Sure I was told that some supermarket fuel stations now are!? Please do this weekly.
These police presence schemes are just makeup to cover what makes money. Traders in cowes makes nothing and end of day doesn’t show presence
The problem is people on the island know when such
events are taking place and they advise friends etc
Plod need to carry out such events in unmarked vehicles,
on the mainland plod are driving along in Lorries and are catching
motorists using their mobile phones.
You can see a lot from a great height.
Make our Roads safe.
Well done catching lawless motorists, the more caught the
better.
This is the type of proactive police work we want on the island to help the safety of the public
Well done to all involved. Do it every day different location there are so many people breaking the law.
Caught ONE speeding car. Yet IF used hidden camera’s or having a lower profile wound have caught thousands.
Imagine if Armies wore, instead of camouflage bright yellow hi vis clothing and plastered their army trucks and tanks with day-glow coloured stripes
As criminals grow ever more sophisticated and devious then so ought the police.
With respect, driving around the Island off your crust on the Devil’s Dandruff is probably more of a problem than doing 45 down the Fairlee Road. Speeding is a problem, but the poor/dangerous driving issue is much wider. By the sound of it, the old bill probably got it about right.
Always the easy bait motorist, never the low life paedos, drug dealers arsonists or any other scum walking around doing as it likes
Although there are references to other offences, all those detailed are notoring offences. Whilst it is imporantto get a grip of these,people are generally more worried by acys of violence and offfences against the person of burglary. Targeting motorists will not make anyone feel safer. Indeed, most of the traffic offences could have been caught on ANPR without taking up police manpower. Police resources are scarce and need to be deployed efficiently. Is the PCC making sure the Chief Constable does so because we never hear about her challenging the performance of the Force.
Obviously someone as qualified as you could spot a burglar walking down the road with a bag marked swag. No they usually use a vehicle. Good on the officers. It also doubles up to deter these non conformist offenders. The cost to investigate a serious or fatal accident runs into thousands of £ of our money, let alone the misery it puts people through. The police get a lot of backing for this type of proactive work.
Of course not. She’s up for re-election so a quick ‘low-hanging fruit, up the figures quick, lads’ makes her look effective doesn’t it? Meanwhile, the bloke on my roof trying to get into my bedroom doesn’t even warrant a visit. Not EVEN when I then find the bag of going equipped tools after chasing him down the street and hand it to them the day after. Maybe they were all tired after spending all day on Fairlee road. Or maybe we need far more of them in general.
Perhaps it was not valuables they wanted but you. So would no doubt have run a mile as soon as you opened your lefty mouth.
Still couldn’t happen to a better person as you spend your life defending low life.
So (being you) , How do you know they weren’t just on your roof to replace a slipped tile and merely got the wrong house?
Perhaps he was a poor impoverished immigrant and needed food as starving.
Perhaps he had mental illness and never knew what he was doing.
How do you like those apples ?
No, he was white, in his 40s and as I didn’t find gaffer tape or cable ties in the bag I’ll presume it wasn’t a potential sexual assault. Nice to know you’d wish that on someone though. I think you’ve just shown your measure right there. THAT’S the attitude I fight, that someone as disgusting as you can bang on about crime, yet apparently it’s ok if you think a person deserves it. And you think I deserve it because of my views on other people. I’ve helped more starving, homeless, impoverished or mentally ill people during my lifetime than you could possibly imagine and not one of them was as pitiful as you.
Do it everyday and will eventually stop the scumbags on the move
But they let the xxxx idiot druggy informer off (who has inside friends obviously) who failed to stop after crashing his car on the dual carriageway hmmmm what’s going on here!? Poor boy must’ve been terrified boo hoo!! Everyone else however was stopped and arrested WT!!!??? Great informed policing guys well done
How much did this cost the tax payer?
Dose’nt matter council tax increase sort that out …
I but you won’t say that when an uninsured driver hits you from behind.
You will be straight on the phone.
I would hazard a guess, that police officers are paid 52 weeks of the year. So they have to do something every day. Probably didn’t cost the taxpayers any extra at all.
Waste of money police state full of idiots
Where are all the stats from stalking, domestic abuse, violence and how are they policing that? Too much legwork and not enough slam-dunk convictions to massage the crime stats for Donna Jones to be bothered?
We are really bothered Karen because your so fishy
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. And you’re (check spelling) still trying to be relevant. Bless.
We need this on a permanent basis.
We always used to see Police on Motor Bikes but not any more.
You see how bad thing are here after a short spell of traffic policing.
We see speeding drivers almost every time we go out.
The Island roads are just so dangerous with narrow roads bends and hills everywhere, bikes in groups of three and more and overgrown hedging.
Beachfield Road Sandown and Great Preston Road Ryde are Autobahns
Speed cameras are a must along these Roads.
‘a high-visibility proactive effort to tackle Island criminality earlier this week’
And that’s all well and good, but shouldn’t it be happening EVERY day of EVERY week?
It’x ok making a big effort one week of the year, but what about the other 51 weeks?
Really, it should be ‘news’ that the police are out and about doing their job, should it?
Personally, I’d like to see police officers visible on the street in every major town on the Island. Not sitting in cars, not sitting behind desk, but out there where we can see them. It doesn’t take huge numbers of officers, just one or two in each town, and, if they can do it for one week, then they can do it for the other weeks too.
Well said.
Indeed. We pay for the police all year round. Why do they make such a big hoo ha about doing their job properly once or twice a year?
I drove by the checkpoint Wednesday morning and there was a swarm of them all over a builders truck. 5 or 6 of them looking in the back, walking around it poking and prodding. The driver had a stack of timber ready to start work I guess. It looked well fastened and tidily loaded. I’ve seen this truck around lots of times. Established builder in regular work so must be doing something right. Meanwhile E.Cowes is being troubled by a team of rogue traders ripping people off with dodgy work and practices. Get out and do a proper job busy body, wannabe Cos-play cops.
Until speed cameras are rolled out islandwide
Speeding will NEVER Stop!
Either the Council or Police should walk down streets and check
vehicle registrations like they did in the old days.
They would catch many offenders.
Also so many vehicles park along our roads and streets
with their vehicles facing oncoming traffic when parked!
VEHICLES SHOULD BE PARKED IN THE CORRECT
DIRECTION.
Car mot check and car tax checker websites will show you
who is breaking the law.
Enter the vehicle registration number and you will find
out if they are exempt
Saw a couple of Numpty’s this evening breaking the
Speed limit along Sandown High street in blue
ST Ford Focus’s
Obviously the plonkers had been watching the
car event in Sandown and then thought they would speed
and with NO Law and Order 24/7 on Island roads
they know they will get away with it!
Was walking along Great Preston Road this evening on my way to work
and saw a motorist whizzing along, must have been doing 60mph+
It is high time something is done about speeding on the island.
if you look at the number of arrests on a really big operation, it,s naff all. it,s your job. you should be doing it every day
I wonder..do they drug test the police before they go out to do this kind of work ?.. I spose not..