Five terrified and jumpy Merseyside police officers swooped on the famous Manchester British National Party’s ‘Punish the Pigs’ truck this afternoon — and issued owner Derek Adams with a caution for the numbers on its rear number plate ‘being too thin.’

The astonishing incident took place outside St Anne’s police station in Liverpool this afternoon, where super activist Mr Adams had taken the truck in support of Mr Peter Tierney’s bail appearance.

The Merseyside police, clearly upset at the large amount of public support the BNP crowd and truck received — by way of hoots and cheers from passing motorists — panicked and ordered a police car with no less than five officers to swoop on the truck.

Pulling up to the Pig Truck and swerving in behind it like boy racers, the five officers, complete with stab-proof vests and sullen faces, ordered the driver and Mr Adams out and began looking for something to say about the truck.

Mr Adams is, of course, an old hand with state harassment, having recently exposed the extremist leftist corruption within Manchester City Hall, and he let the officers search high and low while he stood to one side with a large smile on his face.

Finally, the only thing that the jobsworths could find to do was to issue Mr Adams with a caution that the numbers on the truck’s rear licence plate were “too thin” and that he needed to get a new plate made.

The officers — who strangely objected to being filmed and photographed by numerous BNP supporters in the area — then jumped back into their car and sped off, obviously in search of equally important criminal acts.

Speaking to BNP News after the incident, Mr Adams dismissed it as “nonsense. This truck has been on the road since before the June European elections, and no policeman has ever said anything of that sort before.

“Of course I will get a new rear number plate for the truck, but if they think they can frighten the BNP away with such childish scare tactics, they are badly mistaken.”