{"id":269139,"date":"2025-07-17T11:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/269139\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T11:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:06:15","slug":"dozen-dangerous-e-bikes-seized-during-police-operation-in-birmingham-city-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/269139\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozen ‘dangerous’ e-bikes seized during police operation in Birmingham city centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

A dozen ‘dangerous’ modified e-bikes were seized by police during an illegal clampdown in Birmingham city centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n

West Midlands Police’s Operation Advance saw hundreds of officers tackling issues including dangerous driving, anti-social behaviour, drug dealing and violence yesterday, Wednesday, July 16.<\/p>\n

Police said e-bikes were permitted to travel at a top speed of 15.5mph, but some modified bikes taken off the streets were capable of exceeding more than double the limit.<\/p>\n

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A number of fast food delivery drivers were stopped by officers for checks along the High Street and New Street yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n

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The e-bikes operation in the city centre on July 16 -Credit:Nick Wilkinson\/Birmingham Live<\/p>\n

One bike’s speedometer showed 50.2km\/h or 31mph. Police said motors should not exceed 250W.<\/p>\n

Police said e-bikes were also seized for having no tax and insurance as they were considered a mechanical vehicle.<\/p>\n

Some bikes could be worth more than \u00a35,000 depending on the modifications made to them.<\/p>\n

The seized bikes were due to be crushed at a police impound.<\/p>\n

Pc Paige Gartlan told BirminghamLive: “These e-bikes are moving past people at high speed. They’re especially dangerous for children, the elderly and partially sighted people.<\/p>\n

“We want to raise awareness of the bikes. They shouldn’t be reaching the speeds they are. They are actually illegal bikes and can be considered dangerous.”<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

Police seized a number of e-bikes in the city centre -Credit:Nick Wilkinson\/Birmingham Live<\/p>\n

Four immigration-related arrests were also made by officers from the Home Office in the joint operation with West Midlands Police<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Police worked with partners including British Transport Police, Birmingham City Council<\/a>, security staff, business improvement districts during Operation Advance.<\/p>\n

Activity started before dawn with officers heading out to arrest suspects wanted for a range of offences.<\/p>\n

Assistant Chief Constable Paul Drover, who oversees local policing, said: “Operation Advance is all about using our combined resources and skills, from areas such as intelligence, major crime, operations, road policing, and local policing, to make a real difference in one of our seven local policing areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cYesterday was Birmingham<\/a>\u2019s turn, with the city centre as well as communities across the wider city seeing action from the influx of officers that Advance brings with it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dozen ‘dangerous’ modified e-bikes were seized by police during an illegal clampdown in Birmingham city centre. West…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[35334,855,983,984,748,1221,16545,393,4884,102357,102358,16,15,7830],"class_list":{"0":"post-269139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-bikes","9":"tag-birmingham","10":"tag-birmingham-city-centre","11":"tag-birmingham-city-council","12":"tag-britain","13":"tag-british-transport-police","14":"tag-dangerous-driving","15":"tag-england","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-modified-bikes","18":"tag-operation-advance","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-west-midlands-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114868255848857546","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269139","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=269139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}