{"id":52022,"date":"2025-04-26T11:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T11:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/52022\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T11:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T11:48:10","slug":"motorbikes-and-cars-recovered-and-van-seized-as-part-of-work-by-police-officers-across-west-midlands-to-tackle-vehicle-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/52022\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorbikes and cars recovered and van seized as part of work by police officers across West Midlands to tackle vehicle crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Across the region, stolen vehicles including a motorbike have been recovered by officers, while a van was seized in Wolverhampton for having no tax or insurance.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for West Midlands Police said: &#8220;As part of their integral role helping make the West Midlands\u2019 communities safer, our neighbourhood policing teams have been busy tackling issues around vehicle crime.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s something that is often reported to neighbourhood officers as causing concern within communities, and they\u2019re working hard to deal with it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A stolen motorcycle was also recovered in the Black Country by the Rowley neighbourhood team, while more stolen vehicles have been recovered by our teams in Billesley, Castle Bromwich, Kingstanding, Stechford, and Northfield.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our neighbourhood officers, working with colleagues from across West Midlands Police, will continue to target vehicle theft and your information can be vital.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/6130d737-0594-4191-bd22-832dcdeac7f6.jpg\"   alt=\"A range of vehicles have been recovered by neighbourhood policing teams. Photo: West Midlands Police\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>A range of vehicles have been recovered by neighbourhood policing teams. Photo: West Midlands Police<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can report any concerns about vehicle crime using Live Chat on our website, or by calling 101.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Local officers were also out and about seizing vehicles for having no tax or insurance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One such vehicle, in the Merry Hill area of Wolverhampton, was seized by the Tettenhall, Penn, and Merry Hill Police team, as it had neither \u2013 and was being used for anti-social behavior in the area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The teams are also working closely alongside community volunteer groups like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlands.police.uk\/advice\/advice-and-information\/wsi\/watch-schemes-initiatives\/street-watch\/street-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">StreetWatch<\/a>, patrolling areas and helping stop crime and anti-social behaviour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Across the region, stolen vehicles including a motorbike have been recovered by officers, while a van was seized&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,1354,393,4884,379,12,12608,16,15,10847,4349],"class_list":{"0":"post-52022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-dudley","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-local-hubs","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-sandwell","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-walsall","20":"tag-wolverhampton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114404111447846463","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52022","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=52022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}