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Many offences are enabled by suspects travelling on mopeds and e-bikes from neighbouring areas such as Mitcham and Streatham. Operation Nomad cameras are designed to capture quick-time footage and vehicle registration marks (VRMs) to help identify suspects rapidly.
Cameras are also being used to gather intelligence on youths riding stolen mopeds across green spaces and on drug-related activity, including cannabis use, in local hotspots.
A sharp rise in nighttime car handle-trying (motor vehicle interference) and window smashing has been added as a top ward focus, prompting increased plainclothes night patrols.
After robbery incidents around Bellevue/Broomwood Road, police located the suspects' vehicle. Two men were arrested, charged and remanded in custody.
Furzedown and Tooting Broadway officers located and shut down a cannabis factory in a residential property in SW16. One suspect was arrested for drug-related offences.
