End of UK lockdown may mean a rise in bike thefts

UK police services to launch national cycle crime partnership while pushing theft prevention

Bike theft is a perennial problem - and a pandemic-induced cycling boom inevitably means more targets for thieves.

However, last year there was a 16.3% drop in cycle theft, according to police data from Opal (the serious organised crime unit), partly because more people and their cycles were at home. Across the transport network theft dropped by 60%. Perversely, the main exception seems to be thefts from key workers such as hospital staff.