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How police arrested 700 suspected phone thieves in massive crackdown
LongNews & Politics
Published Oct 8, 2026
Views
2M
Likes
4K
Speed /h
7K
+24h
+4K
Views over time
Views gained each hour, UTC- Views
- 1.7M
- Best hour
- –
- At 24 hours
- –
- At 7 days
- 1.6M
0 of 148 hours read. A gap is an hour we didn’t read close enough to say, not an hour without views.
viralshooter analytics
Our calculations on YouTube API data. Not YouTube metrics.
Position
- Speed percentile
- 36 / 100
- Category percentile
- 85 / 100
- ×base
- ×138
- Channel typical
- 12K · median
Dynamics
- Phase
- fading
- Acceleration
- 0.03×
- Momentum
- ×0.32
- Decay
- 0.97
- Speed half-life
- 11d
Engagement
- Like rate
- 0.26%
- Comments per 1k views
- 0.77
- Engagement rate
- 0.34%
- Views per subscriber
- 0.76×
- Crossed a language border
- No
◆ Calculated by viralshooter from YouTube API data. Not YouTube metrics and not endorsed by YouTube.
| Region | Chart | Best rank | First seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | Category chart | #115 | Oct 12 |
11d
From the YouTube record
Fields of the video as the YouTube API returns them.
- Published
- Oct 8, 2026, 8:47 PM
- Duration
- 5:30
- Category
- News & Politics
- Audio language
- English (en-GB)
- Title language
- English (en)
- Captions
- No
- Definition
- HD
- Format
- 2D
- License
- Standard YouTube
- Licensed content
- Yes
- Embeddable
- Yes
- Made for kids
- No
- Age-restricted
- No
- Paid promotion
- No
- Public stats
- No
Topics
- Society
Title and description in 1 languages
- English
Availability
Blocked in United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, China, Egypt, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman +6.
Tags (10)
- phone theft
- london
- police
- e bikes
- met police
- arrests
- crackdown
- phone snatchers
- itv news
- will tullis
Description
More than 700 people were arrested and hundreds of suspected stolen mobile phones seized in one month by officers from Britain’s biggest police force. The Metropolitan Police, which has some of the highest rates per thousand people of personal robbery and theft from the person in England and Wales, carried out operations including the arrest of a 21-year-old suspect who fled on an e-bike and jumped into a pond. • Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2lOHmNj • Get breaking news and more stories at http://www.itv.com/news Follow ITV News on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@itvnews?lang=en Follow ITV News on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itvnews/ Follow ITV News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/itvnews/ Follow ITV News on X: https://twitter.com/itvnewsShow all
More than 700 people were arrested and hundreds of suspected stolen mobile phones seized in one month by officers from Britain’s biggest police force. The Metropolitan Police, which has some of the highest rates per thousand people of personal robbery and theft from the person in England and Wales, carried out operations including the arrest of a 21-year-old suspect who fled on an e-bike and jumped into a pond. • Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2lOHmNj • Get breaking news and more stories at http://www.itv.com/news Follow ITV News on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@itvnews?lang=en Follow ITV News on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itvnews/ Follow ITV News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/itvnews/ Follow ITV News on X: https://twitter.com/itvnews
◆ Calculated by viralshooter · all other figures from the YouTube API