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Shifnal and Albrighton SNT officers planned aand carried out OP Ankara yesterday along the A41 and surrounding areas. The purpose of the operation is to tackle criminals using the A41 to transport stolen items such as plant machinery,trailers and vehicles. The OP also gave us the opportunity to help reduce road traffic collisions and deter travelling criminals by using targeted patrols and intelligence led policing.

Officers were joined by several of our road policing colleagues, utilising both marked and unmarked vehicles and motorcycles. We were also joined by different agencies from the DVSA and the environment agency, who were on hand to check road worthiness of vehicles being stopped and relevant permits/documents for commercial waste. 

Over 20 vehicles were pulled into the check point site and were checked over by all agencies. This resulted in 3 prohibition notices on vehicles preventing them from driving due to them being dangerously overweight. 1 vehicle was also recovered for being unroad worthy whilst also having 3 tyres below the legal limit.

Another driver was reported for driving whilst using their mobile phone along with several traffic offence reports issued to drivers for having illegal number plates and window tints 

Further operations of this kind will be conducted in the future