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Enrico Punsalang

London Police Are Fighting E-Bike Gangs With Their Own Fleet Of Sur-Rons

London has developed a fairly annoying problem involving stolen phones, fast electric bikes, and thieves who have figured out that traffic laws become considerably less relevant when you're already committing crimes. Suspects can slip between cars, hop onto sidewalks, blast through narrow alleys, and disappear into places where a police cruiser has about as much mobility as a refrigerator.

So the Metropolitan Police has arrived at an ironically straightforward solution. The cops bought Sur-Rons.

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