Police warning - Whitehall area this morning

[Pickle]

Any bikers that come through on the north Embankment might want to take a different route today.

I saw five bikes pulled up just past Westminster Bridge and a butt load of police and police bikes. Asked a security guard what was going on - apparently they were pulling all bikes going past and giving them a complete going over on a rolling road, and checking registration, plates, everything.

There is a police HQ near there, maybe they're doing some training - or it's just that time of year.

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[LeeR]

Are they saying the millions they spent on APNR etc... was ineffectual and they need to stop every one on a bike?
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[J D]

Automatic Number Plate Recognition

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[LeeR]

Yeah, right okay so dyslexic typo aside, I know what APNR is used for.

However, I also thought with the new joined-up databases that the government departments and services were using that they'd actually be doing something cost effective with them.

I mean if your MOT/RFL/Ins/DVLA are all related and they're picking up the plate then they know who the registered owner/keeper is, like using PNC.

Hypothetically an APNR check point should be able to qualify whether the vehicle has valid: MOT, RFL, insurance if one of these are incorrect the vehicle could be stopped. Clearly if you have a small plate and APNR doesn't work you've obviously got something to hide and should be stopped anyway because you "must" be a criminal.

Then in conjunction with PNC you'd have a good probability that the rider/driver was also the registered keeper. In questioning the rider/driver you'd also be able to discern whether they were the owner/keeper. Simple questions such as "is this your bike, sir/madam/miss (delete as appropriate)?

Then you could check their licence and then ascertain whether a dyno check was necessary.

Going back to the OP it strikes me as a bit wasteful, if not discriminatory to stop every bike, and "giving them a complete going over on a rolling road, and checking registration, plates, everything" Why?

Why does the need exist to do this? Is there not enough information? And I acknowledge that a few will slip through the net as it were but policing is a percentages game anyway.

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[The Tot]

They will circumcise you... they'll chop of any length that's proportional to how far over the 33bhp limit your bike is... so if you're riding any 600cc superspors, you won't have a knob at the end of the day.


... chances are they'll do you with driving without accordance to your license, which is 3-6 points... THat's IF they're not pedantic and go into the technicalities.

How's the cops down in london like since i heard they were clamping down on dodgy plates in NW london? I haven't been down in a while, so i guess the only questionable thing on the bike is my full system - everything else is kosher (plate & tax etc).
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[Ariel Badger]

I hear they have a new lead on the Ripper murders, he was wearing a black cape and riding a 1898 Minerva. the bike stopping is just an ongoing case.
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Im not gay mate Pm matthie he may be interested.

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