在南威尔士各地清晨的突击搜查中，警方查获了安非他明、大麻、疑似可卡因、现金和武器，这是打击电动自行车行动的一部分。
Amphetamine, cannabis, suspected cocaine, cash and weapons have been found in early morning raids across south Wales as part of a clampdown on e-bikes.
警方越来越担心电动自行车、严重有组织犯罪和儿童剥削之间的联系——许多涉嫌犯罪的行为是由儿童实施的。
Police are growing increasingly concerned about the link between e-bikes, serious organised crime and child exploitation - with many suspected offences being committed by children.
一名高级警官表示，人们对电动自行车“破坏”英国各地社区感到“厌烦”，而一位专家表示，电动自行车可能为有组织犯罪“润滑车轮”。
One senior officer said people were "fed up" of e-bikes "blighting" areas across the UK, while an expert said they could "grease the wheels" of organised crime.
英国广播公司获准跟随南威尔士警方的一次行动，打击与电动自行车相关的犯罪，从非法骑行到毒品交易——这是地方对全国性问题的应对。
The BBC has been given access to an operation by South Wales Police to combat e-bike related crime, from illegal riding, to drug dealing - a local response to a national problem.
清晨六点，英国广播公司受邀参加在梅瑟蒂德菲尔举行的一场警方简报会，便衣警员参与其中。
It is six o'clock in the morning and the BBC has been invited to a police briefing involving undercover officers in Merthyr Tydfil.
“䴙䴘行动”是对英国各地非法使用电动自行车日益加剧的担忧的回应。一名无法透露身份的有组织犯罪警官主持了简报会。
Operation Grebe is a response to escalating concerns about illegal e-bike use across the UK. An organised crime officer, who cannot be identified, leads the briefing.
他说：“目标是瓦解在南威尔士地区活动的犯罪网络，识别并保护弱势成年人、受犯罪剥削影响的儿童，[并]扣押犯罪资产、破坏犯罪资金链。”这次行动旨在扣押车辆，但也要打击电动自行车更黑暗的一面。
"The aim is to disrupt criminal networks operating across the south Wales area, identify and safeguard vulnerable adults, children affected by criminal exploitation [and] seize criminal assets and disrupt criminal finances," he said. This operation is about seizing vehicles, but also disrupting the darker side of e-bikes.
警员们获得情报称，电动自行车和电动摩托车可能与当地的毒品交易有关。在一个阴暗、潮湿、有雾的早晨，警车驶向南威尔士各地的住宅。
Officers have received intelligence that e-bikes and e-motorbikes may be linked to drug dealing in the area. On a dark, wet, misty morning, police vans make their way to homes across south Wales.
“这些电动自行车正在破坏社区，让人们居住不安全——所以我们要采取行动，”负责监督此次突击行动的警司艾玛·福克斯说。
"These e-bikes are blighting communities, they're making it unsafe for people to live - so we're taking action," said Supt Emma Fox, who oversees the raids.
作为该警队专业行动部门的负责人，她深知电动自行车和电动摩托车已成为多么有力的犯罪工具。
As the head of specialist operations within the force, she knows how potent a criminal tool e-bikes and e-motorbikes have become.
“这在全国都很普遍，”她说，并补充说电动自行车“常常与吸毒、毒品供应和有组织犯罪有关”。她尤其担心骑电动自行车的儿童被惯犯“利用”。她说，坦率地讲，骑这种车“更容易躲开警察”。
"It's prevalent across the UK," she said, adding e-bikes were "often linked to drug use, drug supply and organised criminality". And she was particularly concerned about children on e-bikes being "exploited" by hardened criminals. Frankly, she said, "it's easier to avoid the police", on the bikes.
但警方正在反击，并采用越来越先进的手段打击与电动自行车相关的犯罪，包括无人机和警队自己的电动摩托车队。
But police forces are fighting back, and are employing increasingly sophisticated ways to tackle e-bike related crime including drones and their own fleets of e-motorbikes.
萨里郡警方针对电动自行车与犯罪活动的关联发起了“争抢行动”——今年，该警队查获了136辆电动自行车，高于2025年的127辆。
Surrey Police launched Operation Scramble in response to e-bikes being linked to criminal activity - this year, the force seized 136 e-bikes, up from 127 in 2025.
班戈大学犯罪学与警务高级讲师蒂莫西·霍姆斯博士表示，电动自行车可能为有组织犯罪“润滑车轮”。
Dr Timothy Holmes, senior lecturer in criminology and policing at Bangor University, said e-bikes could "grease the wheels" of organised crime.
“从犯罪活动的角度看，这是一种非常通用的交通工具——它易于操控，速度又快，”他说。
"From a criminal activity point of view, it's a very versatile vehicle - it's easily manoeuvrable and goes at a high speed," he said.
“它们正成为一个新出现的问题，因为它们太显眼了。”他把非法持有和改装电动自行车及电动摩托车的供应和可获得性比作非法武器行业——那里存在“一个庞大的合法产业”，而非法产业则“从中分流出来”。
"They are becoming an emerging issue because they are so visible." He compared the supply and availability of illegally held and adapted e-bikes and e-motorbikes to the illegal arms industry, where there is "a big legal industry" and an illegal industry "bleeding off from it".
他说，对警方而言，这是一个“平衡”问题，即“在不去追查贩毒、郡线贩毒等更严重的有组织犯罪领域的情况下，你要在多大程度上阻止这件事升级为问题”。在梅瑟蒂德菲尔，警车停在一栋红砖半独立式住宅附近。警员们涌出车外，手持破门锤严阵以待，但前门已经开着。加的夫、庞特普里德和斯旺西也有突袭行动。
He said, for police, it was a "balance" of "how much do you stop this escalating into a problem, in lieu of going after the more serious areas of organised crime, like drug trafficking like county lines". In Merthyr Tydfil, the police van pulls up near a redbrick, semi-detached home. Officers pour out and stand ready with a battering ram, but the front door is already open. There are also raids in Cardiff, Pontypridd and Swansea.
在全部14次突袭中，共查获12辆自行车。其中一些将被销毁，另有11人被捕，包括涉嫌毒品犯罪。
Across the 14 raids, 12 bikes were seized. Some will be destroyed, and 11 people were arrested, including for suspected drugs offences.
斯旺西突袭行动中有四人被控涉嫌毒品犯罪，包括供应快克可卡因和海洛因。而在梅瑟蒂德菲尔，福克斯说有一次“重大查获”。“我们查获了一批毒品和现金——疑似大麻和可卡因，”她说。
Four people in the Swansea raid were charged with suspected drugs offences, including supply of crack cocaine and heroin. And in Merthyr Tydfil, Fox said there was a "significant seizure". "We have seized a quantity of drugs and cash - suspected cannabis and cocaine," she said.
“毒品是在楼上的房子里发现的。”这些疑似毒品接下来将被检测。
"The drugs have been found upstairs in the house." The suspected drugs will now be tested.
与疑似毒品和1300英镑现金放在一起的，还有一辆电动自行车、一辆电动摩托车和一辆四轮摩托车。两人被捕，并被戴上手铐带离了这栋房子。“这显示出使用非法电动自行车与犯罪之间的关联，”福克斯说。
Alongside the suspected drugs and £1,300 in cash was an electric bike, electric motorbike, and a quad bike. Two people were arrested and taken away from the house in handcuffs. "It shows the link between the use of electric illegal bikes and criminality," Fox said.
福克斯说，在该地址发现了“气枪类武器”，她补充说，警员们发现这些武器时“很惊讶”。
"Air weapons" had been found in the address, Fox said, which she added officers were "surprised" to find.
“我们本来不会知道它们的存在，但这是从该地址查获的东西，”她说。
"We wouldn't have known about them, but it is something that has been recovered from the address," she said.
高级警官表示，他们正在投资技术以打击电动自行车，但表示这不仅仅是警务问题，还需要更广泛的努力来解决这一问题。
Senior officers say they are investing in technology to combat e-bikes, but said this was not just a policing problem, and would need a broader effort to tackle the issue.