{"id":378130,"date":"2026-01-19T07:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T07:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/378130\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T07:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T07:34:11","slug":"police-officer-dragged-along-wickford-pavement-by-quad-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/378130\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officer dragged along Wickford pavement by quad bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The seized bike, believed to have been involved in the incident, was found in Cranfield Park Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ch Insp Paul Hogben said: &#8220;We are aware that the quad bikes have been causing a nuisance in Wickford and we are determined to stop them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;One of my officers bravely tried to do this on Saturday evening and ended up being dragged along the pavement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is only good fortune that they were not seriously injured.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He described those responsible as &#8220;reckless&#8221;, adding: &#8220;They are putting pedestrians and other motorists at risk and it shows a complete lack of regard for the safety of others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hogben said Essex Police would continue its investigations into anti-social riding &#8220;and the assault of our officer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We will continue seeking to root out those responsible and where we find their bikes, those bikes will be coming with us,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The seized bike, believed to have been involved in the incident, was found in Cranfield Park Road. Ch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-378130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378130","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=378130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}