London Phone Theft Crackdown! Undercover Police Tackle Pickpockets & E-Bikes | 1000 Phones Retrieved

Over 1,000 phones recovered and 230 arrests made in Met police phone theft operation.

Our officers have been intensifying efforts to arrest phone snatchers across London. Watch undercover police officers tackling pickpockets to the ground in Oxford Circus to police helicopters tracking phone thieves on Surron e-bikes.

What happens after they’ve been caught? Take a look at CCTV and police body camera footage of justice being served. We followed officers on a dawn raid, breaking down the front doors of phone snatchers and putting them under arrest.

In this Video:

0:00 – 0:27 Pair of pickpockets in Soho face instant karma

0:27 – 01:02 Pair of e-bike phone snatchers caught in under 2 hours

01:02 – 01:32 Motorbike thief in Croydon caught red handed

01:32 – 01:56 Undercover officers in Soho tackle a prolific phone snatcher

01:56 – 02:40 e-bike phone thieves tracked by helicopter. Arrest made

02:40 – 03:02 Oxford Circus plain clothes officers collar phone thief

03:02 – 03:17 Motorbike phone snatches

03:17 – 03:58 Warrant carried out to make arrests and retrieve dozens of stolen phones