{"id":141479,"date":"2025-05-29T13:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T13:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/141479\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T13:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T13:19:10","slug":"police-seize-electric-scooter-and-report-30-year-old-male-rider-to-the-procurator-fiscal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/141479\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seize electric scooter and report 30-year-old male rider to the Procurator Fiscal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Police officers from the National Motorcycle Unit seized an electric scooter in Edinburgh yesterday Wednesday 28 May 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The officers were on duty when they spotted the scooter being ridden in Ferry Road.<\/p>\n<p>The rider, a 30-year-old male was reported to the Procurator Fiscal.<\/p>\n<p>Officers have also issued a reminder to the public that it is an offence to use an electric scooter on the roads.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said: \u201cOfficers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/nationalmotorcycleunit?__eep__=6&amp;__cft__[0]=AZWAh1KHtZXPYszVyZvBHaSdt6wOap8MAsc-k_-qMid8Qf2fEM2KxaxVrMcmJh4UhGXsxAst7A7LGLQ6iBNkYcWaODUM8UGKQwEgOguIQDlO637YSbe0UX4MCbxZGbeSzNO_varmZsiVBJRWW_gM4EfDXvmgUsLuB05k8vtj0RhA7AKZeSYJhsBNWWeGtKRr-96wifY2Aj_Jm3EoP_sRltzv&amp;__tn__=*NK-R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NationalMotorcycleUnit<\/a> stopped the rider of this scooter on Ferry Road in Edinburgh yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is illegal to use an electric scooter on Scotland\u2019s roads. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe scooter was seized and a 30-year-old is the subject of a report to the Procurator Fiscal\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/2025\/05\/police-seize-electric-scooter-and-report-30-year-old-male-rider-to-the-procurator-fiscal\/?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1748524750_655_pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/2025\/05\/police-seize-electric-scooter-and-report-30-year-old-male-rider-to-the-procurator-fiscal\/?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1748524750_896_print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"m-a-box-avatar-url\" href=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/author\/john-hislop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1748524750_614_Untitled-design-79.png\" class=\"attachment-100x100 size-100x100\" alt=\"\" itemprop=\"image\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police officers from the National Motorcycle Unit seized an electric scooter in Edinburgh yesterday Wednesday 28 May 2025.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,530,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-141479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-police-scotland","12":"tag-scotland","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}