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Dutch police officer hunts down a bicycle with a tracker (a trap bike)

Peter King

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He was riding behind a van when the officer (who was on patrol) was contacted by the police control room that he they had picked up the GPS tracking signal of the trap bike and he immediately followed the van he was driving behind because he suspected that the bike was in the back of the van. He kept following the van and the control room kept indicating that he was very close to the GPS signal of the bike. So he pulled over the van and had them open up the back of the van but to the great surprise of officer there was no bike to be found anywhere in the van. He checked back with the control room and they still indicated that the bike had to be where he was parked.

So he opened the back of his own patrol van and in the back of it was the bicycle with tracker he had been following all over the area. Normally he was a bike officer but that day he was on patrol in a van.

I think it is hilarious but the poor man in the van must have been really shocked that the police pulled him over for bike theft LOL.
 
Did the police officer spend too much time in the Weed Cafe that morning, before his shift started?
 
Peter King said:
He was riding behind a van when the officer (who was on patrol) was contacted by the police control room that he they had picked up the GPS tracking signal of the trap bike and he immediately followed the van he was driving behind because he suspected that the bike was in the back of the van. He kept following the van and the control room kept indicating that he was very close to the GPS signal of the bike. So he pulled over the van and had them open up the back of the van but to the great surprise of officer there was no bike to be found anywhere in the van. He checked back with the control room and they still indicated that the bike had to be where he was parked.

So he opened the back of his own patrol van and in the back of it was the bicycle with tracker he had been following all over the area. Normally he was a bike officer but that day he was on patrol in a van.

I think it is hilarious but the poor man in the van must have been really shocked that the police pulled him over for bike theft LOL.
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Great story and another reason for unarmed cops.
 
Bodhisattva said:
Great story and another reason for unarmed cops.
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Except that here an officer would almost certainly never draw his weapon when stopping a car. Only in cases where a known armed assailant is in the car, or the car has been trying to hit people, would a weapon likely be taken out of their holster.

This is the police stop of a man who was driving at speeds far exceeding the maximum speed level, at some points he gets up to 200 khm (125 mph)



No arrest, no drama, just a ticket and the man is on his way, the officers even shake the man's hand before they leave/the man leaves.
 
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