What a stolen bag of coffee and the Kilburn Circle tell us about crime in London

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 The Metropolitan Police conduct Operation Terminos in Kilburn today. The operation takes a holistic approach to policing in which mobile phone theft, shoplifting, drug-related crime and vagrancy are tackled simultaneously. The photo shows a bag containing coffee bottles which the police suspect are stolen goods.
A stolen bag of coffee, which police believe is at the heart of London’s shoplifting problem (Picture: Justin Griffiths-Williams)

The theft of a bag of coffee is neither the crime of the century, nor is it worthy of national news coverage. Or so it seems. 

What it represents to Inspector Yu Zhang, who I spent a day with, is a gateway into a seedy underworld connected to a network of many other crimes across London

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