Police across Pembrokeshire continue to patrol and conduct stop-checks day and night and throughout the early hours, to ensure that motorists’ travel is absolutely essential and in line with Welsh Government guidelines.

On Monday evening, as part of the high visibility patrols, Pembrokeshire Road Policing Unit officers reported that the roads were quiet in general, with numerous vehicles both from within and outside of the force area stop checked.

One vehicle however from Essex, heading east on the A477 at Stepaside, saw the driver state that he’d picked his girlfriend up in Cardiff earlier, before carrying on west to show her Tenby!

Both persons were reported for non essential travel, and the vehicle escorted out of Pembrokeshire, with the driver also reported for driving with an expired M.O.T which ran out in February!

On Saturday Dyfed-Powys Police’s special constabulary stated that whilst assisting the Road Policing Unit in Pembrokeshire over 200 cars were stopped, with 15 fines issued for drivers journeying from places like Birmingham, Devon, Swansea and Pontypridd, who were and turned back.

The following day police officers conducting stop-checks on St Daniel’s Hill in Pembroke revealed that seven people were issued with fines early on during patrols for travelling from Wolverhampton and Bristol.

In Pembroke and Pembroke Dock - Code A response officers revealed on the weekend that they had arrested a total of six drink/drug drivers, and seized over £600 worth of heroin, along with two vehicles as the drivers had no licence and no insurance all within the last week. The Road Policing Unit also stated that they had made 21 drug-drive arrests so far this month.