http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: “Police to use off-road motorbikes to combat anti-social crime and theft“ en Thu, 21 May 2026 13:50:01 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18709#post-279393 Wed, 04 Apr 2018 10:19:43 +0000 Roibeard 279393@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You're all too late. JK has already written it, but starring a Cormorant.</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18709#post-279391 Wed, 04 Apr 2018 10:10:05 +0000 I were right about that saddle 279391@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Morose and embattled Inspector Råvn, fighting a secret addiction to medical waste... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18709#post-279389 Wed, 04 Apr 2018 10:04:13 +0000 dougal 279389@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>And a stool pigeon. This stuff writes itself. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18709#post-279388 Wed, 04 Apr 2018 09:39:14 +0000 unhurt 279388@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes! Can her partner be a straight-laced green parakeet up from London determined to prove herself to the local birds? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18709#post-279387 Wed, 04 Apr 2018 09:32:06 +0000 dougal 279387@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'd still be willing to watch a feature about a maverick raven who rubs people up the wrong way but gets results. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18709#post-279376 Wed, 04 Apr 2018 08:39:38 +0000 I were right about that saddle 279376@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Remember all - IWRATS' Law allows only one offence against heaven for which pinning and exposure to corvids is the sole and correct punishment. That offence is the theft of a two-wheeler.</p> <p>We can't have bands of vigilante ravens getting bogged down in paperwork and demarcation disputes. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18709#post-279366 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 20:26:13 +0000 dessert rat 279366@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>i think we could probably crowdfund anti-thieving ravens for PS as it'd be popular, leaving the current flock to concentrate on anti-social feral latchkeys. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18709#post-279362 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 17:33:13 +0000 unhurt 279362@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think they felt that @Iwrats made excessive demands of Police Scotland as part of the raven training / deployment contract. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18709#post-279359 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 17:17:09 +0000 dessert rat 279359@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>can't they just use specially adapted ravens ? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18709#post-279358 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 17:09:02 +0000 Trixie 279358@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If the dirt bike plod have the magic spray this might make a difference. However I'm kinda concerned at the need for them to be dirt bikes. Yes, it gives the coppers the capability of skipping off-road but as the bampots tend to do this in areas where that is forbidden and decidedly unsafe, do we now have to be wary of both the cops and the robbers screaming by in parks? Are they allowed to actively pursue on these? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18709#post-279357 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 16:54:13 +0000 chdot 279357@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>Using the off-road bikes will enable specially trained officers to enter and patrol public parks, paths and waste ground providing a regular presence which will disrupt large-scale disturbances and discourage large groups congregating. </p> <p>Officers will use the bikes to patrol hotspot/targeted locations at key days and times, especially at weekends, when residents experience the most distress from the anti-social behaviour of illegal off-road motorcycle use.</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/police-to-use-off-road-motorbikes-to-combat-anti-social-crime-and-theft-1-4717887" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/police-to-use-off-road-motorbikes-to-combat-anti-social-crime-and-theft-1-4717887</a> </p>