'Threatening' e-bikes worth a maximum of £ 5,000 are 'almost exclusively' used for a wave of crime in the streets of Great Britain, a police chief warned.
Donna Jones, who is responsible for police in Hampshire and the island of Wight, warned the electric bicycles that resemble engines are often used by criminals because of their 'maneuverability'.
The police and crime commissioner claimed that the majority of people who use this type of e-bikes 'do something wrong' while expressing her concern about the wave of crime that engages Great Britain.
Silent and able to achieve top speeds with dangerous adjustments, thieves who use these secret e-bikes, sniff around and wait for the perfect moment to jump on unsuspecting victims.
Detectives fight against a theft of epidemic in the UK, in particular in London, where telephone hunters cause damage every day.
The e-bike that causes the biggest headache for officers is the Sur-Ron, who has become one of the go-to option for robbers threatening British cities, where they are used by masked villains behind a dramatic rise in 'snatch' thefts.
The e-bikes made by the Chinese are worth £ 4,900 and capable of speeds of up to 56 km / h, so that riders can weave through the most exclusive pockets of London, including Mayfair and Westminster, and strike before the victim has time to even realize.
Last year Tiktoksteelsten showed two two riders dressed with Balaclava Zig Zig-Zagging by the crowd of Bond Street on Sur-Rons before he pushed a man who filmed a £ 450,000 Lamborghini and finished his phone.
Several other terrifying moments are trapped at CCTV, where innocent walkers walk around with their phones that are aimed at theft in fraction before the rider, often accompanied by a Pilion passenger, goes to their next victim.
Two Balaclava-clad robbers running on Sur-RON e-bikes between Shoppers in Bond Street in September last year
The commissioner's warning comes after the police said that £ 4,900 off-road sur-ron mini engines have become the go-to option for robbers who threaten British cities. File photo
This was the moment when a woman had left her phone by an e-bike thief while he walked through London
Another man is seen that the target is of a thief with an e-bike with thick wheels in London
The electric bicycle of a telephone thief is seized after the police have arrested a man outside the Ritz Hotel in Mayfair
PCC Jones has warned about the abuse of e-bikes that look like 'engines' with 'big fat rubber wheels'. File image
Scotland Yard and the Home Office are in conversation with Sur-Ron about combating their use for crime, where the company promises to collaborate with law enforcement.
Last week shocking dashcam images showed an e-bike telephoto thief that grabbed a device from the hands of a man in the busy Piccadilly area of Central London.
The robbery when the home office was announced that thefts of mobile phones have tripled over the past four years, because criminal gang members help feed a thriving export trade to countries such as China and Nigeria.
More than 70,000 telephones were grown in the streets of London in 2024 alone, from an estimated 100,000 thefts in the United Kingdom.
PCC Jones spoke on a recent Hampshire and Isle of Wight Police and Crime Panel, that e-bikes resemble 'engines' with 'big thick rubber wheels' cause problems for powers.
“They are so expensive to cycle, they are almost £ 5,000, and the police have told me that they are almost exclusively connected to crime,” she said.
'Because you can get a bike that you can get from A to B, which does not look so threatening and does not look that fast, so because of the costs and agility of them for criminals, it is almost an exclusive market.
“There are few people who ride on them who don't do something wrong is what is told me.”
A dashcam recording conquered the criminal who carried out the theft in busy Piccadilly with a complicit on Saturday evening
The Stark warning came after a Portsmouth police officer had been released last month by causing serious injury by dangerous driving after he used his patrol car to push in an e-bike (photo following)
This was the moment when the rider and the passenger of the e-bike were beaten in Bognor Regis
PC Timothy Bradshaw was acquitted to cause serious injury to 'productive' perpetrator Mason McGarry, then 17, who broke his leg after he was 'beaten' of the electric bicycle
Mason McGarry (left), 19 – who has more than 40 convictions – and the gutbuiter Dominic Mizzi (right), now 22, were both turned off
Mr. McGarry and Mr. Mizzi – who have a whole series of criminal convictions between them – remained vast over the floor after they had been beaten from the electric bicycle
The grim warning from PCC Jones came after a Portsmouth police officer was released last month by causing serious injury by dangerous driving after he used his patrol car to push in an e-bike.
PC Timothy Bradshaw, 55, carried out the 'tactical maneuver' to close passengers Mason McGarry and Dominic Mizzi, who had more than 66 beliefs between them.
Retired PC Bradshaw told Jury members that e-bikes had caused excessive problems for the local force in Bognor Regis, West Sussex and Balaclava-bearing perpetrators, they often used criminal activities.
The bike driven by Mr. McGarry and Mr. Mizzi was 'adapted' to work at a higher speed, the court was told.
The officer said jury members that e-bikes had a 'nuisance' for the local strength and were often used for criminal activities.
He told the court that Mr. McGarry – who had more than 40 convictions – was “top of the list” for those who used the bikes antisocial in the coastal city.
Jury members had taken less than 20 minutes to arrive at a non -culprit judgment and knew PC Bradshaw of the indictment.
The bike used by Mr. McGarry – who estimated that he traveled her hour at 15 to 20 miles – was 'modified' to work at a higher speed.
Mrs Jones, who has been the Hampshire police and crime commissioner since 2021, also hit the problems of e-scooters for officers in her troops.
The conservative politician said: 'You will commit a violation if you drive on the road without a moth and insurance on a private scooter, because it is not possible to get a moth and insurance on them, so effectively, you commit a violation.
'It can be an unintended crime that you commit as a 15 -year -old if you have bought one for your birthday.
“There are many people they use to push around drugs with speed, and they can put it over their shoulder, collapse the scooter, pick up the elevator, go up, drop off, get down and they are gone again.”
Mrs Jones said that 'Much more education must be done when it comes to e-scooters, and added:' Parents would hate £ 450 to spend an electric scooter if they knew they encourage their younger ones to commit a crime.
'I actually think that the responsibility lies with the government.
“I told this to previous transport secretaries – you make the problem.
'Change the law and make it legal for them to use them, but make it clear that you have to go into cycle paths, or make it clear through a national campaign that you cannot use private scooters – and then halfords might stop selling.
“But this is the problem that we have.
“We are against it.
“You can buy them in stores like Halford or online, then of course people do not realize that they commit a crime when they buy one for their child.”
It is currently not possible to get insurance for private e-scooters.
This means that it is illegal to use them on the road or in public spaces, such as parks, street pavements and shopping centers.
E-bikes are legally in the UK, as long as they meet the requirements, including a maximum power of 250 watts and a maximum assisted speed of 15.5 mph.
