Car driver takes unruly action against police road safety measures

(um) Officers from the Herford police traffic service monitored the speed of road users on Hiddenhauser Straße at Tiefenstraße last week as part of European Speedweek. The measures are aimed at road safety and were set up with the police's new speed measuring device on Thursday late afternoon at around 16:40. A 21-year-old man from Enger liked the tripods and photo equipment set up there so much that he parked his Fiat Panda directly in front of the system so that he could no longer see the traffic. Initially, civilian officers approached him about the misconduct, and the young man immediately reacted aggressively and unruly. The officers asked the driver to drive the vehicle out of the measurement area and park it in a suitable spot a few meters away. The man took a seat in the passenger seat without being impressed by this order to leave. A few minutes later, two other uniformed officers asked him to correct his misconduct. The man from Enger also refused to reveal his identity and did not hand over any identification documents to the officers. Instead, he became more aggressive and pointed out his rights as a citizen. The officers took the 21-year-old into custody and searched him at the police station in Herford in order to enforce the order to leave the scene and continue the police's road safety work. Here the identity could be established beyond doubt. The man will now face criminal proceedings for resisting the intervening police officers and for the criminal offense of coercion.