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Since 2014, the Metropolitan Police Service has identified a significant increase in moped enabled crimes. These are robberies committed by offenders riding mopeds and other vehicles such as motorised scooters. [1] In 2017, moped crimes increased to almost 27,000 compared in 2011 with just 365 mopped crimes. Moped was reduced to 14,300 in 2018, higher than around 9,200 in 2019. [2]
Moped theft (theft of motor vehicle) and mobile enabled crimes (robbery with force) are recorded separately throughout the justice system. [3] Q3 2020/21 showed all taking of motor vehicle theft had reduced by 17% and total robbery was down 31% in London. [4] COVID-19 would have had an impact on recorded data over the period.
Official figures back in 2016/17 revealed more than 19,385 moped enabled crimes in London, [5] but the figures are often inflated for exciting headlines in the local media. In May 2017 the London Evening Standard claimed that at least 50,000 crimes had been committed by gangs using stolen scooters, mopeds, motorcycles and bikes. In the article, it was claimed that the vehicles were often hijacked in Outer London boroughs such as Barking and Dagenham and used to commit robberies in the West End of London. The article claims that statistics released by the Metropolitan Police revealed that up to 1,500 scooters or motorcycles were being stolen in London each month. In the previous twelve months 13,005 thefts were reported, a 41 per cent increase over the previous period. [6]
On Tuesday 18 July 2017 moped and motorcycle delivery drivers held a protest in Parliament Square concerning the recent rise in attacks on riders; including hijackings and acid attacks. [17]
On Friday 8 September 2017 The London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, launched a "zero-tolerance approach to moped crime", a collaboration between police, local authorities and the Motorcycle Crime Prevent Community (which represents motorcycle users) to help tackle moped-related crime in London. [18] In 2023, A series of raids has launched by London metropolitan police and from the City of London, since January 2023, authorities recovered 400 mobiles in which 150 of them has been returned to their owners. [19]
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