Dramatic footage shows the moment officers from the Met's Flying Squad swooped in on a group of robbers after they tried to steal a £2,000 watch.
The elite anti-robbery unit caught the group during an a proactive operation in the West End to target criminals, following a spate of watch robberies area.
On Friday, August 12, at around 2am, a 29-year-old man left a bar in Berkley Square after an evening with his friend and got in a taxi to head home. But, unknown to him, four men were following him close behind in a separate car after noticing that he was wearing a watch worth £2,000.Activist jailed for scaling Dartford Bridge slams sentence saying climate crisis 'should've been taken into account'Officers had been monitoring the movements of the four men from earlier, as they had been acting suspiciously.
After a few minutes the group made off, followed by Flying Squad officers, and all four men were arrested shortly after.
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