{"id":725144,"date":"2026-08-02T23:54:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T23:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/725144\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T23:54:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T23:54:28","slug":"psni-scramblers-e-bikes-and-e-scooters-seized-in-two-day-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/725144\/","title":{"rendered":"PSNI: Scramblers, e-bikes and e-scooters seized in two day operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 20 scramblers, e-bikes and e-scooters have been seized over the course of two days by police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Two Wheel Vehicle Operation took place on Friday and Saturday in Lurgan and Craigavon in County Armagh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers in uniform and plain clothes were supported by colleagues from Air Support Unit who deployed a drone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sgt Adam Patterson from the Police Service of Northern Ireland said: &#8220;The number of vehicles seized demonstrates the scale of this problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;Twenty three nuisance vehicles are now off the road \u2013 and, as these uninsured vehicles are not road legal, they will be disposed of by police within 14 days of seizure unless the owner requests a review by the magistrates court, at the owner&#8217;s expense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Their inappropriate use in public spaces poses a risk to the safety of both rider and the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;People have already been seriously hurt as a result of their use.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 20 scramblers, e-bikes and e-scooters have been seized over the course of two days by police.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-725144","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\/725144","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=725144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}