All in a week’s work for a Roads Policing Officer

Find out what happened when we tracked the work of one of our amazing Roads Policing officers for a week

A snapshot of the week (five shifts) displays the efforts this officer took to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured on our road, to target criminals who used the counties roads to commit crime and to support local policing. All in support of the force’s vision of Keeping Lincolnshire Safe. 

The combined efforts of PC Millican in just one week are impressive. It was a pro-active week, albeit we know he never stops, and this confirms our thoughts.  He specialises in drink and drug drivers and has been commended for his knowledge of the subject while giving evidence in court.  

In the week we cover his work he made four arrests, two drivers who were over the drink drive limit and one for drug driving, the fourth was a risky vehicle stop leading to an arrest for assault. He also attended and investigated a serious injury RTC, gave evidence at court in relation to a serious collision, and interviewed a suspect following a fatal collision. 

Over the week he took five uninsured vehicles off the road.  Four of those drivers had their vehicles seized, and they were also dealt with for driving without bothering to have a licence! The other insured his vehicle after being reported for the offence. 

As part of a team effort with other officers, PC Millican’s work in this week contributed to: 

It’s Monday morning and the first shout of the day comes in just before 7am. PC Millican along with his Spec Ops colleagues from armed policing are called upon to use their tactical pursuit training skills (TPAC). 

A high-risk incident had been called in reporting a woman had been removed from hospital by force. Along with armed response officers, local teams, CID, Intel and the FCR, the officers worked to find a vehicle believed to contain the victim. 

The vehicle was found and blocked in by police vehicles (reinforced stop). The suspect was arrested, and the victim was safe guarded. 

After that incident it was off to court as the officer in charge of a case of causing serious injury by careless driving.  The driver was found guilty after trial and disqualified for 12 months, given a 135-hour unpaid work order and various costs. Biker's heart pieced by rib in Ludford crash, court hears - BBC News

Next, it was off to Manby, near Louth, to investigate a life threatening RTC; a cyclist had been hit by a car.  PC Millican and his RPU colleagues completed the initial collision investigation, which was then handed to our Serious Collision Investigation Unit to conitinue, such was the impact of the collision. When the case was ready, the CPS approved charges for causing serious injury by driving without due care and attention.

In December 2025 the driver was given a custodial sentence of 26 weeks, suspended for 18 months and handed a 2-year driving ban, along with various costs. 

That was all on Monday, his first shift of the week. 

On the Tuesday, PC Millican stopped a driver after he spotted her driving at speed in Skegness, she blew 81 so was over the limit.  She didn’t have a driving licence, and her vehicle was seized. She was disqualified from driving for 20 months alongside various costs and fines. 

Paperwork and the investigation file for the previous days RTC filled what was left of the day. 

On Wednesday, PC Millican caught another uninsured driver, who was later ordered to pay various fines at court and received 6 points on his licence. 

Later, he supported another colleague with a car that was found and stopped following a third-party report of a domestic related incident. The driver tried to give our officer false details, but a fingerprint scanner confirmed who he was.  The driver didn’t have a licence and his vehicle was seized.  

In relation to the original report, the parties were separated, no offences were disclosed, and safeguarding was put in place. 

During the same day a second drink driver was arrested, he blew 77, the legal limit is 35, after being stopped for driving at excess speeds and swerving between lanes at Louth. The driver received a 36-month driving disqualification, fines and other costs.

Both Thursday and Friday were equally busy and saw a further arrest when a driver near Alford was initially stopped for speeding but failed a drugs test for cocaine, leading to her arrest. At court, she was banned from driving for 12 months and had to pay various fines and costs. 

Another driver was caught driving without a licence or insurance, his vehicle was seized and he later went to court to receive 6 points, alongside various fines and costs. 

Next, PC Millican and colleagues from Roads Policing, supported by the Serious Collision Investigation (SCIU) and Forensic Collision Investigation Units (FCIU) attended a fatal collision involving the death of a motorcyclist at Lincoln.  The driver of the offending vehicle was arrested, and PC Millican assisted SCIU by interviewing him while he was in custody. SCIU oversaw the investigation, and this investigation remains ongoing. 

On the way back from Lincoln along the A157 at Hainton, another driver was stopped driving at 100 mph on a 60-mph road. To make matters worse, he didn’t have a licence or insurance. His car was seized, he was disqualified at court for 56 days, being ordered to pay various fines and costs.

We have highlighted some of the work of PC Millican, but in-between these duties he carried out speed checks, ASB patrols, issued traffic offence reports and completed other general duties.  

Dave has been a Roads Policing Officer since July 2022. It’s a pleasure to share just one week of his duties, it is clear he is on a mission, a successful mission to lock criminals up and keep drivers who shouldn’t be on our roads, off them! All with a view to keeping our beautiful counties roads safer. 

We spoke to Dave, he said:

“In Roads Policing, some results like a seizing a vehicle come instantly; whilst others such as my colleagues’ excellent investigation into the driver that hit a cyclist can take months, or even years. By nature, our work leads to a lot of arrests, which means we (like many officers) spend a lot of time processing the suspects, completing the toxicology procedures, and then managing the long-term court demands of our investigations. 

This was a good week to highlight the range of things we’re typically dealing with, and hopefully offers some assurance that we’re doing all we can to keep the roads safe and disrupt criminality. We patrol in marked and unmarked vehicles, and we have a range of ways to detect road criminality. 

“For me, what’s always worked best is simply stopping someone who is driving badly.”