{"id":415244,"date":"2025-09-11T07:42:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T07:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/415244\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T07:42:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T07:42:28","slug":"almost-3000-arrests-made-by-west-yorkshire-team-since-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/415244\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost 3,000 arrests made by West Yorkshire team since 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The force&#8217;s\u00a0Proactive Intercept Team (PIT) has\u00a0made\u00a02,971 arrests between August 2020 and August 2025 \u2013 the equivalent of 11 a week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Officers from the team have also seized more than \u00a33.9m in cash during that time, along with drugs worth more than \u00a332.4m.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  According to West Yorkshire Police, officers with PIT are\u00a0&#8220;relentless in their pursuit of offenders who use the road network to commit crime&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They have carried out 1,700 vehicles searches and seized more than 1,660 vehicles in the last five years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Their stops include stolen vehicles, drivers suspected of being involved in drug-related crimes, and riders of illegal or stolen bikes.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Chief Inspector James Farrar, roads policing lead at West Yorkshire Police, said: &#8220;They have specialist driving skills and use all available intelligence and modern policing tactics to target those causing the most harm. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;These results should send a strong message to criminals that if you use our roads to commit offences, you are highly likely to be caught and brought to justice.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The force&#8217;s\u00a0Proactive Intercept Team (PIT) has\u00a0made\u00a02,971 arrests between August 2020 and August 2025 \u2013 the equivalent of 11&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-415244","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\/115184543061788378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415244","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=415244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}