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Off road Police bikes were in force to combat ilegal off roading in Stourbridge.
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28/06/2024
Stevens Park in Wollescote, Stourbridge has a problem with off road bikers, as do many parks. Police were out on scrambler bikes and took chase of an ilegal rider.
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Yeah, so if you just don't mind introducing yourself, so I'm Grant Allen, obviously, yeah,
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we sound very well known. Yeah, so what are we doing here today? So today the Forest Traffic
00:09
Team are here supporting Up Advance with the Dudley LPA and the Hale Zone Neighbourhood Team.
00:15
So I'm here as part of one of the off-road bikers. So we saw you, we saw you sort of take off as
00:20
soon as we got here, sort of take off after we already we saw one person on an off-road bike
00:25
going off. Can you just talk a little bit about what happened in that? Yeah, so this area has
00:29
over the last few months, it's had problems and complaints of people using the parkland to
00:35
ride off-road bikes and it's causing a nuisance to every other member of the public that's using
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the park. So me and the traffic teams can come and we can help to try and solve that problem,
00:47
that's why we're here today. Absolutely, yeah, and can we know sort of like a little bit about
00:51
the chase itself at all? Can we know about that? So the chase itself, as with any chase,
00:58
any pursuit, it comes with its own dangers and we need to manage those risks because at the end
01:07
of the day everyone's safety is our responsibility. So we've always got to be mindful of that with
01:13
every pursuit we have. Absolutely, yeah, perfect. So let's just talk a little bit about the bikes
01:17
itself then because these are pretty cool off-road bikes aren't they, these ones. So
01:20
can we just talk a little bit about the bikes that you're utilising for this? Yep, so we have
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a fleet of six Honda CRF300s, we've had them for about 12 months now. They've recently been fitted
01:32
with livery, lights and sirens which gives us a better presence and more capability.
01:38
Absolutely, yeah, obviously it gives you the ability to go off-road to pursue these chases
01:42
like you're doing today. And just talk a little bit about the train and what the specialist
01:46
officers go through. Yeah, so all the off-road bikers, we're also advanced road bike trains,
01:53
within West Midlands Police, so we've all had seven weeks of training for that, plus an
01:58
additional one week's training for the off-road bikes. That training is very intense, tiring,
02:07
dirty and wet, but it is good fun. Absolutely, yeah, not like a bunch of e-bocca-nibbles out
02:13
there or anything. No, there's no jumps, no stunts involved at all. No, that's perfect,
02:18
thank you very much, that's great, that's brilliant.
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