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The police can’t be trusted to track our e-bikes

15 September 2023

5:21 PM

15 September 2023

5:21 PM

In more innocent times, I’d have responded to the news that police wished to fit tracking devices to electric bicycles with a grunt of approval.

Finally, I’d have thought. Plod has come up with a practical, apparently technologically literate yet relatively inexpensive method to fight low-level crime. Makes a change from the rainbow helmets.

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