A driver whose suspicious driving led to a police helicopter search was warned about non-essential travel last night.
NPAS Redhill’s crew spotted the car being driven in Portland Road, Hove at about 10.40pm last night.
Residents spotted what they believed were infra-red searchlights being used around a wide area of Hove, Portslade and Brighton.
A police spokeswoman said: “Around 10.40pm on Tuesday (14 April) police were alerted by the National Police Air Service (NPAS) to a vehicle being driven suspiciously in Portland Road, Hove.
“Officers stopped the vehicle in the vicinity of School Road, conducted road side tests and the man was given words of advice for non-essential travel.
“No arrests were made.”
Waste of police resources!
Very late too – woke me up for second night in a row.
Guys around the Brighton racecourse which is the nearest I can walk my dog. I can’t get away from others. If I drive with my dog in my truck, do the police need to fine me because I’m over sixty years old and with health issues?
The police helicopter was flying around exactly the same place and same time last night 15/04/2020 as well. I don’t believe for one minute this was a routine stop of a single driver – you wouldn’t fly from Redhill just to check up on them a second night.