The decision by the Met Police to use “tactical contact” to knock thieves off stolen scooters has been widely publicised, and welcomed by those who felt the police should have been doing more to tackle the crime, which had become an epidemic and, apart from anything else, was hitting scooter sales in London and other cities.
An interesting Twitter exchange, then, between Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott and Camden Police.
The Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington had criticised the police tactic, which elicited a police response:
