{"id":400623,"date":"2025-09-05T18:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T18:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/400623\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T18:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T18:20:17","slug":"police-appeal-for-help-over-bike-and-e-vehicle-crimes-in-west-leeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/400623\/","title":{"rendered":"Police appeal for help over bike and e-vehicle crimes in West Leeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in West Leeds are appealing for information on motorbike theft and anti-social use of bikes and e-vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westyorkshire.police.uk\/my-neighbourhood\/leeds\/leeds-west\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Leeds West Neighbourhood Policing Team<\/a> (NPT) has launched Operation Bradebank to tackle the theft of and anti-social\/criminal use of motor bikes and e-vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>An NPT West spokesperson said police need to increase our intelligence in relation to the following:<\/p>\n<p>1. Where are the vehicles being kept when not in use?<br \/>2. Who is using them?<br \/>3. Where are the areas they are regularly frequenting or cutting through?<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson added: \u201cIt is worth noting that with the exception of Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycles, these vehicles cannot be used lawfully on public roads and pavements, for example an e-scooter on a pavement\/road would potentially be an offence of driving not in accordance of licence and insurance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More information on the use of electric scooters, bikes and quads <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westyorkshire.police.uk\/ask-the-police\/question\/Q361\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leeds West NPT covers Armley, Bramley, Kirkstall, Calverley, Farsley, Farnley, Pudsey, Stanningley, Wortley and surrounding areas.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored content<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"638\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2024-10-31-at-18.31.46-638x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-164818\"  \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunnybankmills.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.sunnybankmills.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in West Leeds are appealing for information on motorbike theft and anti-social use of bikes and e-vehicles.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-400623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115153078202643476","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400623","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=400623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}