Gwent Police unveil tuk-tuks as latest crime fighting tool

Italian constabulary person driven Ferraris, American officers Corvettes and successful the United Arab Emirates the Bugatti Veyron has been used.

To this database Gwent Police person added their latest limb successful the combat against transgression - the mighty tuk-tuk.

The unit snapped up 4 of the three-wheelers to usage successful Newport and Abergavenny, successful Monmouthshire.

It said officers volition beryllium utilizing the motorised rickshaws to patrol parks, walkways and elsewhere.

The unit has not said however overmuch it spent connected the vehicles, which person a apical velocity astir 55km/h (34 mph).

But 1 trader was advertizing them online from £10,995.

Gwent Police said they volition beryllium utilized arsenic "safe spaces" wherever crimes tin beryllium reported, assistance sought and transgression prevention proposal given.

Ch Insp Damian Sowrey said: "They were connected amusement astatine our Behind the Badge day, giving section residents the accidental to spot them up adjacent and to perceive much astir however they volition beryllium used.

"The feedback was overwhelmingly affirmative with parents telling officers that they would consciousness safer knowing that determination was enactment for young radical retired astatine night, and from women who could deliberation of an juncture erstwhile the tuk-tuk would person been a invited sight."

The unit said "ambassadors" could besides usage them, which could see Newport Now staff. Newport Now oversees selling and absorption of the metropolis centre.

According to that document: "The nighttime ambassador strategy volition let these guardians to thrust novelty tuk-tuks to present precocious visibility reassurance patrols wrong the metropolis centre to marque residents and visitors consciousness safer erstwhile walking astir the city."

It said tuk-tuks and guardians could beryllium utilized "across each organisations" which would summation their interaction crossed the metropolis to trim crime.