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If most moped crimes are committed by felons with pre-stolen scooters, how difficult can it be for plod to run any pillioned moped's plates through ANPR, with any sus plates resulting in a stop-and-search? Obviously this suggestion is based on the premise that there's actually enough plod to be out on the roads, but hey, one can dream.
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I was thinking along these lines. Stop and search every moped with 2 people aboard.
Guess it would still come back to how do you catch them. The wrong uns would flee. Leaving the police wasting all their hours stopping Italian investment bankers.
Perhaps a ban on pillion passengers could work. A bit draconian though.
finger_jockey
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Who would it negatively impact to give greater stop and search powers where there is a scooter/moped with a pillion passenger?
Of all the people I know who commute, or just generally get around by moped, I don't know anyone who relies on it as a mode of transport for more than themselves. Obviously, I don't know everyone, hence my question.
But it seems that many of these attacks or thefts involve a pillion passenger. If the reasonable grounds for suspicion warranted a stop in these cases, I can only imagine that it would catch a number of people going equipped (hammers, knives, bottles of acid, bolt croppers etc.)
When I was a special constable in Clapham, we were tasked with stopping youths on bicycles, as that was what was being used in most street thefts/muggings. But that was obviously too broad an area as funnily enough, most young people on estates were mucking around or just getting about on bikes.