Pop-up police vehicle check
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Pop-up police vehicle check by David Hawgood as part of the Geograph project.
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Pop-up police vehicle check
Image: © David Hawgood Taken: 7 Nov 2013
A police strategy for finding vehicles which do not have current licence or insurance (or have been reported stolen) is to set up a check point, somewhere with a dual carriageway or layby or slip road so that vehicles can be pulled over without disrupting the traffic flow. They use a substantial team of police officers - there are ten visible in the photo - so they can check several vehicles at the same time. They appear suddenly, check for a few hours, and move on somewhere else. [edit] I see from Image that another Geograph contributor photographed another check in the same place, back in March 2012.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.519671
Longitude
-0.265076