How undercover police are luring and catching luxury watch robbers on the street

Undercover officers are wearing luxury watches as bait to catch robbers as they target people in London.

Footage released by the Metropolitan Police shows unwitting thieves being tasered, rugby-tackled and wrestled to the ground after trying to rip the high-value items from their wrists.

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[tomod]

Now this is some proactive policing! Bravo. Make sure to mix it up with other valuables though

[chieftandriver]

Blimey, comments left on?

I guess someone at Sky had their Rolex nicked

[harold]

As the BBC would say there is a serious lack of diversity in the robbers 😂

[kruger-]

Hmmmm, funny how the robbers are of a certain "type of person", always the "usual suspects", same lot who do all the stabbings

[ramman]

Black Lives Matter … err wanna be gangster my view in gen x half the time, stop with the soft tactics and swarm in mass there wasn’t even one car ready to block them off when they ran, I commend the unit but they need more assistance from both rank and file brass and tough sentences

[paparudaruda]

This is great! I salute the police officers for the approach!

[paulbailey]

Not much diversity in the robbers. This country must try harder.

[slimbrady]

Engineers, doctors & lawyers they said?

[mkelebay]

Crazy how the robbers all looked so similar, just a coincidence I guess.

[pp]

Anyone else notice that the criminals are not ethnic British?

[wildnfree]

1:42 mins. I thought the robber tripped, but he actually got tased.

[Cassidon]

Will sky show us the mugshots of the offenders.

Of course not.

[vasilishimself]

Money drives crime? No it doesn't, the lack of serious consequences is what drives crime. The benefits of committing crime outweigh the costs.

[jayclarke]

Wonderful coverage of what's happening on tge ground. The problem is now the criminals know what's going on so it mught be best to keep your nice things locked up at home. 🤷

[Soarific]

Usual suspects, rubber dhingy rapids bro

[caffeineisking]

They look exactly how I imaged they would what a surprise

[Revolutionisnear]

Stop letting in doctors, engineers and architects! We have our own here !

[pam]

Always the same suspects, keep them coming Rishi Sunak!!!

[publichealth]

This is heartening. The best way to reduce crime in our society is for the police to be proactive.

[lambastepirate]

The religion of peace needs your watch!!!