Overview
- The Metropolitan Police, backed by around 120 officers and MIB support, seized 90 vehicles worth more than £8 million in central London during a weekend operation between Friday and Sunday.
- Fifteen cars were taken under recently introduced powers that let officers confiscate vehicles used for antisocial behaviour without first issuing a warning.
- A Ferrari Monza SP2 — one of 499 worldwide and valued at about £3.7 million — was stopped less than 30 minutes after its driver began driving and was impounded for lacking UK insurance and holding only a provisional licence.
- Routine stops using the MIB’s Navigate database uncovered other alleged offences and led to multiple arrests, including suspects held on suspicion of handling stolen goods, money laundering and possession with intent to supply drugs.
- The operation marks the biggest number and value of seizures in the five‑year campaign to curb dangerous and nuisance driving in Hyde Park, Kensington and Chelsea and signals faster enforcement and more evidence-gathering for follow-up prosecutions.