Dashcam video released today shows a squad of specially trained drivers carrying out so called 'tactical contacts', which involve tipping crooks off their scooters or dumping them on the bonnets of police cars. Police want people to know how far they will go to stop criminals through their so-called “Operation Venice.”

“There is a perception that if you remove your helmet or fail to stop for police when requested to do so we will not take any further course of action. She added: "It's a high impact tactic and therefore our riders and our drivers will be considering the risk to the rider that they are pursuing, the risk to the public and the risk to themselves. “Our message is clear: we can, we will and we do target those involved in moped and motorcycle crime at every opportunity,” Pearson said in the statement. Police released this footage to show how difficult it is to follow a speeding bike as its rider weaves in and out of small streets on a London housing estate

The Met says it has cut 'moped-enabled crime' by 44 per cent in the last year, from 19,000 offences to 12,500.
The London Metropolitan Police Service releases video footage of police cars being driven into suspected criminals on scooters. They say the tactic isn't new.