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London police use specially trained drivers to prevent potential criminals from using motorcycles and mopeds by pushing them with cars.
The police are already using automatic tire deflation devices to stop offenders and DNA and forensic evidence to catch them. Now, through what the Metropolitan Police call "contact tactics," drivers have been trained to target criminals who drive dangerously, without helmets or disguised, so that officers warn of causing injury to both offenders and to the public.
In a video released Friday, the Metropolitan Police presented this tactic in the hope that "potential offenders will think twice about their actions," the department said in a statement.
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The police want people to know where they will go to arrest the criminals during their so-called "Operation Venice".
"We have the impression that if you remove your helmet or if you do not stop when the police request it, we will not take any further action.It's wrong," said Amanda Pearson, commander of the frontline police of the Met, in a statement. .
Theft of mopeds and motorcycles themselves – as well as their use as escape vehicles for other crimes – both concern the police. Between January and October this year, 8,261 mopeds were stolen in London, compared to 12,192 for the same period in 2017.
Pearson said that even if the police were satisfied with the decrease in motorcycle theft, she would continue to work tirelessly to reduce that number.
"Our message is clear: we can, we will, and we target those involved in moped and motorcycle crime on every occasion," Pearson said in a statement.
