Police officer gets escorted drive around Mayfair after Met seizes rare Ferrari

Craig Munro | Senior Politics Reporter Published August 10, 2026 5:02pm Updated August 10, 2026 5:03pm The seizure of this Ferrari Monza gave one officer the opportunity of a lifetime (Picture: Met Police) A Met crackdown on antisocial drivers in central London led to a police officer getting the opportunity to take a £3.7 million Ferrari for a spin around Mayfair. Supercars worth more than £8m were taken off the streets around Hyde Park by the police over the weekend. While many of them were loaded on to the back of a flatbed truck for their journey to the police pound, one officer wasn’t letting his chance slip to get behind the wheel of a particularly rare model. Only 499 Ferrari Monza SP2s have been made by the Italian supercar brand, with one selling for $4,995,000 (£3.7m) earlier thi