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Operation Bumblebee (UK)

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In October 2009, Operation Bumblebee was revived, following a sharp increase in residential burglaries. Eighty officers were assigned to specialist anti-burglary squads, and a media campaign urged Londoners to "think like a burglar". In 2013, police involved in Operation Bumblebee began to make use
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Operation Bumblebee was first introduced to north London in 1991. It was the creation of now retired Detective Chief Superintendent William Peters and was rolled out across the rest of the capital in June 1993. Police would gather intelligence on past offenders through a network of informants and
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on the homes of suspects. Another aspect of the operation was the roadshows held regularly throughout London, at which millions of pounds' worth of recovered stolen goods would be put on display, allowing victims of theft to identify and claim their belongings.
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of computer-generated crime maps, to predict where crimes were most likely to reoccur.
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