ON Monday morning this week officers from Leeds North West Neighbourhood Policing Team were joined by Roads Policing Unit colleagues and representatives from the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) and Leeds City Council's Environmental Crime department in Otley, as part of a multi-agency traffic operation.

A NPT spokesperson said: "We were performing stop checks, to assess the road worthiness of vehicles using our local road network."

Results included: two vehicles seized for no insurance; five prohibition notices issued by the DVSA for vehicle defects; two overladen vehicles made to remove some of their load on the spot (one of which was almost double their legal weight); two drivers issued with notices by the LCC Environmental Crime Team to purchase a waste traders licence within a specified time and one driver issued with a court summons for a cracked windscreen, loosely-fitted wheels, being overloaded & load not secured properly.