SYP Motorcycle and Rural Crime Team

Well this last week has certainly left me questioning my life choices lol. 36 degree heat in full bike kit .

For the haters, I am not writing this in work time, don't worry I am not spending your hard earned money, while I could be fighting crime. I am off work at home paying myself.

We can't update you on everything we have been doing last week unfortunately. This is due to ongoing investigations, secret squirrel stuff and all that. 🐿️

However, I can give you a quick snap shot of one evening in our beloved Donvegas.

We had literally just arrived and we spot a red 4x4 in company with a white van.

The cheech and chong was strong 💪. Both vehicles stopped.

On enquiring with the driver of the van as to its providence he eloquently stated.

"I'VE JUST NICKED IT."

Say what now.

"I'VE JUST NICKED IT."

Sure enough it was actually stolen, not sure if it's the heat or a new strain of truth cannabis, but we will take it. If only every investigation was so easy..

In the van a bum bag filled with cannabis was also seized..

Off to the cells bruce, see ya later.

Next up following continued issues with diesel thefts in the Doncaster area we travelled to Highfields.

We weren't on the trail long, before we rooted out these three trailers. Filled with barrels, syphoning gear, a battery and a pump mixed with the aroma of diesel it didn't take Sherlock to figure out the puzzle.

All three trailers seized used in crime.

We then responded to a rather bizarre incident involving two mobility scooters where the riders were reportedly shooting at wildlife.

Sure enough as we came off of Pastures Lane, Doncaster, there we see two mobility scooters.

One clearly in possession of a rifle case.

Hilariously the first mobility scooter tries to make off.

"XS XS THIS IS LORS1 WE HAVE A VEHICLE FAILING TO STOP. ITS A BIT OF A STRANGE ONE, SPEED IS 5 MPH. VEHICLE IS NOT ACCELERATING AWAY FROM ME. ACTUALLY IVE GOT OFF THE BIKE, ITS A STOP STOP LOL 😆 "

Whilst chatting to the rider of mobility scooter number two, the one with the air rifle, he jumps up from the scooter and starts protesting his innocence.

Hmmm not sure you should be so sprightly if you need that my friend.

Air rifle found to be loaded but not one in the chamber. While conducting a search of the male. Turns out he is wanted.

The chap clearly knows that something is afoot, boom like a whippet out of the traps, Mr mobility scooter is the next Usain Bolt. Like a gazelle he's off and scales an 8 foot wall into gardens.

Clearly loaded, he continues to hedge hop back onto the main road where he was detained between some garages. Can't out run a big 4 fiddy pal.

The old busted bracelet's make an appearance and are slapped on said wrists.

Clearly this gent's pace may have been helped by some tweaking dust, any higher and he may have required wings.

I am not sure who he was looking at, but it may have been through space and time.

Another one off to custody. A further search whilst in hotel Donvegas revealed a small amount of class A.

DWP forms submitted, might be worth a check what this upstanding gent is claiming.

Not wanting to miss out on the power of the class 2 we swapped out the 450 and kindly took our tweakers steed back home.

Team out.

Don't forget its e bike night at SX Worx in Sheffield.

4.30pm to 9pm.

Premier under cover track, so can be used all year round.

If you want to ride, without hassle flat to the stop do it here.

https://orlo.uk/HoLM1

ALERT !!!!

Are you a working farm or rural business in South Yorkshire ???

Have you heard of South Yorkshire Police rural crime initiative ??

This initiative is run in partnership with the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority.

SYMCA have provided funding of £443,000, to help with preventing rural crime, by target hardening your business.

If you think you qualify, take a look at the website and the grants available, then e.mail your interest to.

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Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity to help stop rural crime.

A little tale about our day in Doncaster 📖

Well it was a funny old day yesterday.

First time I have had horse muck thrown at me. It's usually human or dog, so I guess I can complete a trilogy .

So we were back in sunny Doncaster for another fun filled day of intelligent conversation and polite society.

Before we even made it to Doncaster, we saw three, Surrons, each bright care free fun loving rider, popping wheelies on the wrong side of the road through red lights, near the Tesco in Rotherham.

Their little ballies flapping in the breeze man bagged up looking all posh, what a sight it was almost poetic.

After a bit of catch up we engaged them near Tesco, however they quickly split and went into Clifton park.

We aborted the pursuit as there was an event on and we didn't want to put others at risk.

Then to Mexborough for a briefing. Just as we were leaving the station up pops another Surron rider wearing a white helmet.

Appears this chap had already encountered local officers earlier.

It got the jump on us through the park where a fair was on so we took it steady.

Out the other side and now another Surron, wearing a balaclava. After going up a grass banking the rider tried to get through an A frame. Quick blip of the throttle and the surron is pinned to the A frame by our bike.

Tyre smoking the rider of the surron couldn't get it free so gives it legs. After a short foot chase, the rider wished he hadn't given up his gym membership so early.

Bike seized, rider searched and drug paraphernalia found, rider reported for driving offences.

Then we went to assist a plain clothes officer who had seized two e scooters near to Steetley Quarry.

Following this we then made our way to the quarry, where offenders have ripped out the new barrier system, moved the rocks to help prevent illegal vehicles and burnt out a Range Rover.

A little further down the track they had even cut the metal gate.

After a ride through Steetley we spotted a rather shiny 24 plate KTM.

We went to speak to the rider and he didn't like what we were going to say.

After another FTS along the paths towards Hexthorpe, we nearly died finding a burnt out engine block in the middle of the path.

After getting the old heart under control we couldn't decide through the dust, which way he had gone and took a wrong turn.

After a trip to the registered keepers address, the rider wasn't home. Paperwork incoming we have your face and your plate.

While we were dealing with this our sergeant who was making his way to us had another fail to stop with a Surron in Balby.

He called it when the rider while popping a wheelie dropped his phone with his picture as the profile page, so that's been taken for investigating!

Then back to Steetley our eyes in the sky spotted three bikes in the quarry.

We quickly caught up to one, but he was only 14. We took his details and told his dad to take him home. The other bikes suspect stolen, disappeared under the viaduct into undergrowth.

At this point the team had to split due to a high risk missing person in Edlington.

As we were doing this there were reports of a stolen Triumph being seen in Kirk Sandall.

While making our way there, the aircraft picked up a suspect stolen KTM heading towards Dunscroft.

The passenger on the bike even decided to give our pilot a wave.

After watching the bike being dumped officers arrived and the rider, who is the appaarently the angel of Dunscroft was identified in a group.

The rider decided that he fancied a go throwing punches at officers and was sprayed with Pava for his troubles.

After 15 mins of flat to the stop on blues on the WR, we got to the scene and were met with a group of about 30 people.

The group were super polite and we debated theology and philosophy. I think we even found a way to make peace in our time. It was quite beautiful actually.

I am not sure where the horse muck fitted into the universal debate, but maybe thats a talk for another time.

Anyway the KTM was stolen in May and the angels halo slipped a little and he was arrested.

While we were brushing horse out of our uniform, our other riders who had gone to look for the missing person happened across this quad on Edlo pit top.

It was seized suspect stolen. The rider was reported and it is awaiting a stolen vehicle exam.

Well thats a whistle stop tour of another day.

If you're inclined check out Donnie Dingers on tick tok. This is where our fun loving teenage customers love to take the mick out of you the public by nicking your bikes and filming it.

Its only harmless fun though so dont be mad at them.

So this week saw the start of the NPCC national police chief councils, 2 wheel campaign.

This operation is aimed at some of the most vulnerable road users. The hope is that it takes vehicles off the road to prevent accidents and also drives up awareness of what is legal and what is not.

Yesterday we were posted to Doncaster to assist with this campaign.

Before I go on, however, I would just like to pause and say a heartfelt thanks to all our fans, that came out and gave us a good old chivvy up of abuse wherever we went.

Our hearts were bursting with all the love you showed us. From aggressive waving 😉 to just full on, full throttled words of encouragement. Your Snap Chats must be brimming.

I think we counted 12, separate occasions of fans, just randomly showing us some love.

In fact, I think we must mention two adult individuals, who clearly thought a good time on a Saturday night was hanging out on a street corner with a can of beer abusing cops, top job lads, the future is bright.

Anyway, whilst in Rotherham first off, we stopped the adult rider of an e scooter. Yes not crime of the century, but this is the target of the operation. The scooter was just being seized when his friend turned up recording his encounter, rolling along on his e scooter. The irony !

After being stopped and a bit of whats your real name, no seriously stop lying to us whats your real name, we got to the bottom of this content hungry chaps ID and for his pains, he lost his scooter and will be off to court.

Following this, we had just got to Donnie when we found ourselves around the corner from an RTC, road traffic collision, where a male had run from the offending car.

As we were turning up the offending male had decided he would come back for his car.

Being somewhat spannered, he had not computed that this may not be the best of ideas.

After checking his wrist size for the loops of love, he was arrested for driving unfit, dangerous driving and other traffic matters.

His walk to the police car was comical at best with us propping him up at the front back and sides. To you, to me !

In custody he blew 112, the legal limit is 35. What is more scary is that his sat nav was set to go on the A1. Wow 👌

Thankfully no one was seriously hurt. In the front of the car was an open car of DEAD MANS FINGERS RUM. Hmm think on that, what could have been.

Whilst on this incident, we would like to thank yet more people, who for some bizzare reason could not help filming the scene of the collision on their phones. I dont just mean one of two.

Who are you filming this for we would love to know your morbid motivations or is it that you love us that much you want a little cinematic moment to look back on fondly.

Next off just around the corner one of the team had gone to fetch some keys for a car, when he spotted a scooter parked up running, with no number outside a shop.

As he pulled up behind it a rather startled, church going, fun loving young tyke, all bright eyed, stepped out of the shop with his safety balaclava half rolled up his head.

The young Usain Bolt was tripped by a quick leg out technique, but his generic brand trainers were always going to be quicker than enduro boots.

The motorcycle was, ID as stolen 5 days ago and was already in a bit of a mess. The young scally was was clearly into DIY with a pair of bolt croppers under the seat.

Lovely pic of your face on CCTV Bruce, see ya later !

After waiting for recovery we decided to start heading back as we were already going to be late off.

As we were coming back through Rotherham along Doncaster Road, we spotted an illegal e motorcycle, doing about 30mph, with the rider not pedalling.

After following him for a short while he was stopped by some of our team a little further up the road.

Anticipating that he would try to make off, his exit on the kerb was blocked off.

Seeing the gig was up he gave it legs down the road and was witnessed throwing a bag over a fence.

A short time later he was detained. The 13 year old rider was in possession of what we suspect to be class A, class B and a quantity of cash.

The bag that had been thrown contained 14 individual bags of suspected class A.

At the home address more drugs were found.

The rider was arrested for possession with intent to supply, possession and other traffic matters. The bike was seized.

All in all after a 13 hour day we finally turned off the light in the office and went home.

I am sure we will be criticised for doing our job again. Seems the norm nowadays, good old police bashing has become a UK pass time 😁

So from time to time its only right the team help out in other areas of policing, it ensures we broaden our skill set and the force can utilise those skills when demand peaks. It also ensures officers in specialist roles such as the Off Road Bike Team are kept up to speed with the various policies and procedures rather than silo working which can have a habit of creating narrow mindedness.

The lack of posts have been down to a stint I've spent working as a custody sergeant, swapping the saddle for a comfy chair and handle bars for a mouse!

Apprehensive about the stint, missing the adrenaline of patrolling on two wheels, I have a new found appreciation of just how hard of an environment the custody suite is to work. The sole objective is looking after the welfare of those who find themselves in here.

The environment is like no other, dealing with a constant flow of people in arguably the lowest point of their lives. Be it legitimate reasons, to allegations that may turn out to be false, people from all backgrounds and walks of life can find themselves there.

I wanted to share a few insights of my time off the bikes, and in the cells.

Ive learnt that on searching someone, you can never imagine what they can have upon their person, a road sign, microphone, bag of frozen chicken nuggets all in one persons pockets.
Frozen Buffalo chicken wings, fake £50 notes with your mums face on, the list goes on.

Some of my colleagues here in recent weeks upon trying to look after the welfare of the detainees, have had to endure some quite alarming incidents.

Being spat in the face is a common habit, hot all day breakfast thrown is another. (Admittedly à la carte they are not).
Then for the outright bizarre, Human feacees thrown at us, seamen thrown at them, (no thats not Jonny Depp, in a big pirate hat) and even a used tampon launched at one simply enquiring if the detainee wanted any refreshments.

The staff in custody are solely there to look after the welfare of the individuals. They do not make decisions on the case. They do not attribute blame.

The nights are long and the flow of prisoners coming in are relentless.

The overwhelming majority are well behaved and polite, and leave saying thankyou, but there are the minority who no doubt what we do to appease them will go out of their way to be belligerent.

Ive learnt a great deal whilst in custody, and hope the staff in there are offered a little more respect than they currently do. They are after-all only human.

Back on the bikes soon…to join the rest of the team…

We are entering a busy time of year, please continue to report, focusing on informing us of who and where the bikes originate from. We have additional officers on our team this year which will greater improve our capabilities to tackle both the issues caused by Off road bikes and rural crime.