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00:00I'm here today at the Silver Lake Garages in Shedfield in Hampshire and I'm really pleased

00:23to have signed a contract just about almost a year ago to be crushing electric bikes and

00:29scooters and these are modified electric bikes and electric motorbikes and e-scooters that are

00:34seized by the police across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We're here today from Hampshire

00:37and Isle of Wight Police Roads policing unit with the Police and Crime Commissioner Donna

00:41Jones on the first anniversary of Operation Crush. We know these kind of bikes and e-scooters are

00:47often associated to crime whether it be knife crime, transporting drugs, antisocial behaviour

00:53or in fact road traffic offences. Our message from the roads policing unit is that we will

00:58focus our resources and target the criminal use of these vehicles, dangerous use of them and also

01:05antisocial behaviour with them. So it's really important that for me as Police and Crime

01:09Commissioner listening to what the public have told me we are getting these vehicles, we're

01:12getting these e-scooters, these modified electric bikes and modified electric motorbikes off our

01:17streets. E-scooters are not legal to use on the roads. You may possess them and use them on private

01:23property with the permission of the landowner however if you venture onto the public roads

01:27with them you will be committing an offence and if you come to our notice then we will use

01:31Op Crush in order to deal with that. And police officers will be regularly stopping young people

01:35using these and anyone using them across our communities to make them aware that without

01:39insurance you're breaking the law, you need to get off and you need to push it home.