{"id":341790,"date":"2025-12-29T23:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T23:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/341790\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T23:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T23:24:09","slug":"police-helicopter-circles-bristol-in-search-for-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/341790\/","title":{"rendered":"Police helicopter circles Bristol in search for driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The helicopter circled for an hour<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_BRI_PG_050124npas-10.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>A file photo of National Police Air Service NPAS on a flight(Image: PAUL GILLIS \/ Reach PLC)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A police helicopter was deployed over Bristol to help officers search for a driver suspected of driving without insurance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The helicopter was seen circling over the Cadbury Heath area yesterday evening (Sunday, December 28).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A man in his early 20s has been arrested on suspicion of driving while disqualified and using a vehicle on the road without insurance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The man has been released under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A spokesperson for Avon and Somerset Police said: \u201cWe were called at about 6.15pm on Sunday 28 December to a report that a car was being driven without insurance in Cadbury Heath.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cA man, in his early twenties, was arrested on suspicion of driving while disqualified and using a vehicle on a road without third party insurance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;He has been released under investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A spokesperson for the National Police Air Service (NPAS) said: &#8220;At 1937hrs on 28 December 2025, a police helicopter crew from Almondsbury were deployed to support Avon and Somerset Police with an area containment in the Bristol area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Total flying time on the task was around 1 hour and 1 minute.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The helicopter circled for an hourA file photo of National Police Air Service NPAS on a flight(Image: PAUL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32952,924,59,57,58,50,2888,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-341790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-avon-and-somerset-constabulary","tag-crime","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-traffic-travel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}