Police leader calls on TikTok to investigate Oxford Street ‘robbery’ campaign

The Metropolitan police arrested nine people and issued 34 dispersal orders after hundreds of teenagers gathered outside JD Sports on Oxford Street. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

A UK policing leader has called on TikTok to investigate an Oxford Street “robbery” campaign that was supposedly orchestrated on the platform and led to shuttered stores and a number of arrests.

Donna Jones, the chair of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC), said: “If I was a person in charge of governance of TikTok at the moment, I would be running an investigation to find out what has happened, particularly as there are very well known social media influencers on that particular social media channel who are linked directly to what happened in Oxford Street.”