Bexley police get new offroad bikes to tackle pikeys

[Rogerborg]

Apologies for the Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BexleyPolice/photos/a.944131782316375.1073741828.942178552511698/1468935683169313/?type=3&theater

Bexley police claim that picture was taken last week. Without reading the comments, how many things can you spot wrong with it?
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[Fizzoid]

Well, I suppose they could have had the bikes lying around for a while, you know, when you still needed a tax disc
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[ScaredyCat]

Is that the pavement? Fixed penalty for riding on the pavement. Bad officers.
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[grr666]

No blue lights that I can see.
And are they PCSOs?
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[Rogerborg]

[Fizzoid]

WR250R...

Don't know?
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[chris-red]

Where does it say those bikes are new?
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[Rogerborg]

It doesn't, but the last year that Yamaha imported the WR250R was 2010. That's a long time in police service. They haven't removed that VED disc since it expired in 2014?

For bonus points, see if you can spot why I've just realised that I was wrong about this being Fake News old images though. It does happen.
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[weasley]

[Fizzoid]

[Ste]

Sounds like a case of "it was like that when I bought it, pls prove otherwise".

Met Police aren't the only ones to use WR250 bikes for photo opportunities:

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-a-police-office-on-a-motocross-scrambler-off-road-police-bike-in-a-38823562.html
https://www.motorcyclenews.com/bikes-for-sale/yamaha/wr250f/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/seifracing/8814338434/in/photolist-eqTMJj
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366431/Scramble-police-Boys-Blue-dirt-bikes-chase-crooks-woods.html

The registrations of the two bikes Bexley police use for riding around parks are DV10 VRW and CA10 VPJ.

[Rogerborg]

[Ste]

A photo of crime being tackled is worth at least a thousand assurances if by assurances you mean reassuring #bikelife that they're not going to get chased.

They've had the bikes since at least February 2015: https://twitter.com/MPSBexley/status/571404628157448193

The bikes haven't gone many miles on them!! One of the bikes has done 1,053 miles between February 2015 and January this year and the other has done 743 miles in the same time window.

[Fizzoid]

[Rogerborg]