Police are racing through city streets on powerful e-bikes to take down criminals using them to snatch watches, phones and bags from pedestrians.

Curbing these e-bikes, which are often used by thieves to snatch phones and watches, is a priority in the new policing plan launched by the Mayor of London and Metropolitan Police today (Tuesday).

The bikes can sometimes exceed 50mph as they whizz through central London, blindsiding unsuspecting pedestrians.

But they are now being pursued by Met officers on their own electric bikes to level the playing field.

Metro joined a ride out on Friday evening to see this initiative in action as scores of officers met at Cambridge Circus on Shaftesbury Avenue.

Police were stopping e-bikes suspected of having been ‘souped up’ – meaning they have been u

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