Northland road policing manager Inspector John Fagan alleged the rider had been causing havoc in Whang\u0101rei, as well as posting footage online.<\/p>\n
He said police were cracking down on unsafe and illegal dirt bike riding.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn many cases this involves young people posting their offending footage online for clout.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat they don\u2019t realise is that they are committing offences which put themselves and other people at serious risk,\u201d Fagan said.<\/p>\n
In the Far North, two young riders with a child passenger were caught by police recklessly driving their dirt bikes in Kait\u0101ia.<\/p>\n
Both bikes were stopped by police, who established both riders were forbidden from operating a vehicle.<\/p>\n
A tow truck was called and the bikes were impounded.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s fortunate that none of those young people were injured as a result of reckless behaviour,\u201d Fagan said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese bikes are not toys and have the ability to cause harm and damage to both people and property.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fagan said police shared the community\u2019s frustrations about dangerous activity on public roads and spaces.<\/p>\n
People were encouraged to report dangerous driving, as Fagan said this helped enforcement action.<\/p>\n
He specifically mentioned reporting at the time of the offending that included descriptions of bikes and their riders and what addresses offenders were travelling from.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know this is an issue that causes frustration among so many in our community, and we will keep working to make sure our communities are safe,\u201d Fagan said.<\/p>\n
Reports can be made via 111, or after the incident either online or by calling 105 or anonymously via Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northland road policing manager Inspector John Fagan alleged the rider had been causing havoc in Whang\u0101rei, as well…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1075,1070,198,1068,1069,1073,1078,111,43,139,1067,69,675,1071,1076,1072,1077,1074,1079],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-answered","tag-bike","tag-can","tag-catch","tag-dirt","tag-media","tag-nabbing","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-northland","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-rider","tag-riders","tag-social","tag-successfully","tag-taunt","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}