Old Bill on Brick Lane

As for arresting theft in brick lane - try and do that, more than half the stolen bike in Brick Lane are likely not to be reported let alone their serial number registered, so how can the police arrest a seller for selling bicycle that claim to be stolen? the seller can easily claim that the bike are merely second hand bike that the owner don't want anymore.

yes, they could've add a bit more work in going through the stolen bike report from their local station and then going down to Brick Lane to check the bike, but at the same thing I've a feeling it's not that simple.

sometime it's not as straightforward as it seemed to said "why don't you arrest bike theft?".

this one? yep, read it, understand what you are saying, but I dont think it detracts from my point that resources could be spent elsewhere to deal with more serious problems. If the police down bricklane today were maybe at their stations updating and getting more familiar with their stolen bikes database then maybe they could prove which bikes were stolen more easily and weekends? To me this exercise looks like minimal work stats chasing...