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August 2026
Supercars worth millions seized in crackdown on antisocial driving
Officers from the Met, supported by MIB, seized a total of 90 vehicles worth more than £8 million between Friday, 7 August and Sunday, 9 August in an operation targeting uninsured drivers, anti-social and dangerous driving across Hyde Park, Kensington and Chelsea. This is the highest number and value of vehicles seized in the operation’s five-year history.
Op Noisy Car in numbers
The seized vehicles included a Ferrari Monza SP2, worth £3.7 million, which had only been in the UK for a day, for driving without insurance and not in accordance with a licence. The motorist only had a provisional driving licence and had been in the car for less than half an hour when he was stopped by Met officers.
The operation featured 120 officers, including 95 from the Met’s Special Constabulary and Vehicle Enforcement Team, backed by MIB's expertise in uninsured driving prevention and advanced roadside support.
The weekend's action worked to tackle growing public concern over disruptive driving behaviours, including those linked to visiting motorists who have failed to follow UK insurance laws.
During this operation, alongside the 90 vehicles seized, stops for suspected insurance offences also enabled officers to detect a range of other criminal activity, including:
A man who was found with 19 bank cards in other people’s names and more than £2,500 in cash, who was arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods and money laundering
A man who was stopped for driving without insurance and found to have £5,500 in cash, who was arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply Class A, B and C drugs
A man who was arrested for using words and behaviour that would likely cause harassment, alarm, and distress to a member of public
A man who was arrested on suspicion of an immigration offence
The weekend of action also identified a number of uninsured drivers who were caught out by common insurance mistakes. This included drivers whose insurance noted the wrong registration or vehicle and drivers whose insurance did not cover UK driving, highlighting the ongoing need for MIB’s efforts to educate all UK motorists on their motor insurance responsibilities.
Ghost Broking Apps
MIB has joined forces with IFB (Insurance Fraud Bureau) and City of London Police to highlight the latest patterns of activity undertaken by ghost brokers who pose as legitimate insurance brokers on social media.
Click below to download a short PDF on what to look for and what to do if you come across a ghost broking policy.
More than 320 micromobility seizures during national day of action
On 6 June, more than 20 police forces across the UK took part in a National Day of Action targeting illegal e-scooters and e-bikes. The activity formed a key part of Op Apex, the NPCC's national two-wheeled vehicle operation, which ran from 1 to 14 June.
The coordinated operation delivered significant results, with more than 327 vehicle seizures and over 200 prosecutions recorded nationally. Officers carried out targeted enforcement against illegal e-scooters, Sur-Ron bikes and other unlawfully used vehicles, while also engaging with communities to raise awareness of the law and the risks associated with their use.
The operation took place against a backdrop of growing concerns around privately owned e-scooters. Despite their increasing popularity, public understanding of the law remains low. Under current UK legislation, privately owned e-scooters cannot be used on public roads, pavements or cycle lanes. As e-scooters are classified as motor vehicles, riders require both insurance and the appropriate driving entitlement. With no insurance products currently available for privately owned e-scooters, anyone riding one in public is automatically uninsured.
Research commissioned by MIB found that more than half of UK adults were unaware that privately owned e-scooters are illegal to use on public roads. This lack of awareness is particularly concerning given the increasing number of serious collisions involving micromobility vehicles, resulting in traumatic brain injuries, complex fractures and other life-changing injuries.
The National Day of Action highlighted the value of coordinated enforcement and partnership working in tackling illegal vehicle use, improving road safety and increasing public awareness. The results also reinforce an important message: alongside enforcement, education remains critical in helping people understand the law, make safer choices and reduce the risk of avoidable harm to themselves and others.
Op Drive Insured makes roads safer and educates young drivers
In case you missed it, we’re excited to share the results from the first Op Drive Insured 2026. In just one week (20 - 26 April), police roadside operations tackling uninsured driving seized over 3,200 vehicles.
Operation Drive Insured (ODI) is a key opportunity to highlight the work we do together to remove uninsured vehicles from the road and reinforce the requirement for all drivers to hold valid and appropriate insurance.
The latest campaign saw a huge step up in roadside results, including:
3,248 seizures
563 secondary offences identified
21 instances of drug driving and/or drug possession
7 stolen vehicles
9 cloned or false plates
108 arrests made.
Police operations also successfully identified uninsured vehicles linked to secondary offences from fraudulent driving licences to going equipped.
Educating young drivers
While the week of activity highlighted clear instances of purposeful uninsured driving, we know that a number of uninsured drivers will make a common insurance mistake, from not noticing their policy lapse to believing that they're covered to drive other vehicles.
The least educated amongst the driving community is undoubtably the youngest generation. To support them, we ran a 6-week social campaign on TikTok and Instagram shortly after the week of Op Drive Insured, focusing on the messages ‘Are you insured’ and ‘Driving other cars’.
In order to appeal to 18 to 24-year-olds, to which insurance is certainly not a ‘cool’ topic, our ads played on the idea of not actually talking about insurance and, instead, making it the ‘taboo’ word.
This is our first Op Drive Insured campaign targeting a narrow demographic, and it resulted in:
17 million displays on social user’s feed
Over 160,000 landing page views (a 93% increase in conversions compared to the equivalent spend on our generic campaigns)
Cost per landing page view of just £0.18
