Immigration arrests at car wash business

Police arrested four men at a business in Hylton Road

Four men have been arrested on suspicion of immigration offences after police targeted hand car washes in Worcester.

The four men, aged between their 20s and 40s, were arrested at a hand car wash on Hylton Road on Saturday by police working with immigration officers.

Officers also targeted delivery riders using e-bikes and spoke to 19 people in an operation at The Cross and Foregate Street, but no immigration offences were discovered, a West Mercia Police spokesman said.

Police seized four illegal e-bikes and one electric scooter from delivery riders and members of the public.

E-scooters are currently illegal to use on public roads, pavements, cycle lanes and pedestrian-only areas unless part of a legal e-scooter loan scheme, but there are no such schemes in the West Mercia area, the force said.