Calls grow for police to stop selling seized e-bikes
Lancashire's Commissioner also supports new e-scooter regulations
Lancashire's Police and Crime Commissioner, Clive Grunshaw, has reiterated his calls for police forces across the UK to cease reselling seized e-bikes and e-scooters.
This move comes as concerns linger over these vehicles finding their way back into criminal activity.
Grunshaw is appreciative of the Government's recent plans to regulate e-scooters, an area he has been active in campaigning for almost two years.
In 2024, he wrote to then Policing Minister Dame Diana Johnson MP, advocating for more stringent legislation around e-bikes and e-scooters.
Consequently, the Crime and Policing Act introduced measures to make it easier for police to seize illegally used vehicles.
The local response in Lancashire involved funding a fleet of specialist motorcycles which have facilitated the seizure of over 1,100 vehicles in a year, all of which were subsequently destroyed.
Despite this progress, certain police forces continue to auction seized vehicles, underlining Grunshaw's call for a nation-wide policy change to prevent such practices.
Grunshaw has emphasized the importance of policing that prevents the return of illegally used e-vehicles to streets.