'Get in' - woman joins police chase by giving officer a lift in Nissan Micra

A pistillate operator came to the assistance of a constabulary serviceman who was chasing a fishy connected ft - telling him to "get in" aft stopping her Nissan Micra and offering him a lift.

The serviceman had been pursuing Jacob Roberts, 25, who had reverse-rammed a constabulary car doubly and crashed into parked cars and a gathering portion trying to escape.

Roberts sped distant from officers who had smelled cannabis coming from his van, with the pursuit seeing him thrust successful an erratic manner, failing to halt astatine aggregate junctions, mounting pavements and putting pedestrians astatine risk.

The operator helped PC Kerswell drawback up to Roberts, who was arrested and aboriginal jailed for 1 twelvemonth and 2 months for a fig of driving offences.

While fleeing from constabulary successful his achromatic van, Roberts had driven into a dead-end thoroughfare successful Abercwmboi, Rhondda Cynon Taf, wherever helium ditched the car and tried to flight officers connected foot.

Police bodycam footage captured the infinitesimal the serviceman past runs to a reddish Nissan Micra driven by an un-named pistillate operator and tells her: "I request a lift."

"Get in," the pistillate replies.

As she gave pursuit the pistillate is heard asking the serviceman to nonstop her, saying: "Where to?"

The serviceman is seen jumping retired of the car aft spotting the fishy and takes retired his taser and arrests him.

During a hunt officers recovered 2 cannabis cigarettes connected him.

Roberts, from Mountain Ash, was jailed for 1 twelvemonth and 2 months for unsafe driving and disqualified from driving for 3 years.

He was sentenced astatine Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court connected 16 September, wherever helium pleaded blameworthy to unsafe driving, driving whilst disqualified, driving without insurance, nonaccomplishment to halt aft a roadworthy accident, transgression harm to property, and possession of controlled Class B drugs.

Kerswell said: "Roberts was already banned from driving erstwhile helium committed these offences - helium showed implicit disregard for each different roadworthy users, including pedestrians.

"I anticipation it acts arsenic a deterrent for others who deliberation of driving dangerously.

"It's fortunate that nary 1 was earnestly injured during this pursuit. We anticipation this condemnation volition springiness Roberts clip to bespeak connected his actions."