Officers from the Kent Police’s road patrol units has busy night in the Towns during their New Year’s Eve shift.

The unit helped firefighters deal with a car fire on The M2 near Gillingham, just before midnight.

Firefighters from Medway and Rochester fire stations were call out to the coast-bound carriageway to put out the blaze.

It is believed the car, a 4x4 was able to pull over to the hard shoulder and get out of the vehicle before the flames too hold.

Police helped at the scene with traffic management as firefighters extinguished the flames.

No one was injured during the incident.

Elsewhere officers from the unit arrested a man in the Towns after a vehicle allegedly failed to stop for officers.

The man was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving and failing to stop for officers and was detained after offers from the dog unit brought in their K-9s to help locate him.

He was taken into custody.

And at about 5am, also on the M2, officers from the unit arrested a man on suspicion of drink driving.

The man was detained after officers pulled over a white Corsa on the hard shoulder.