Police officer gets chance to drive £3.7m Ferrari seized in Met crackdown

Ninety vehicles confiscated in weekend operation including rare Ferrari Monza SP2, driven by someone without insurance or full licence A police officer got the opportunity to drive an open-top limited edition Ferrari in Mayfair, London, after the car was seized as part of a record-breaking crackdown on uninsured vehicles and dangerous driving. The Dubai-registered supercar, worth £3.7m, had been in the UK for just a day when it was confiscated by the police because it was being driven by someone with a provisional licence and no insurance. Instead of loading the sports car on to a flatbed truck used for such seizures, a Met officer wearing sunglasses drove the Ferrari to the police pound. Footage of the incident showed him driving the Ferrari Monza SP2 – one of only 499 made by the Italian company – around Mayfair and Marble Arch, escorted by police vehicles including the empty flatbed truck. It was one of 90 vehicles worth a combined total of more than £8m seized over the weekend as part of an operation with the Motor Insurers’ Bureau (MIB) cracking down on uninsured motorists and antisocial and dangerous driving around Hyde Park, Kensington and Chelsea. The Met said it wa