An alleged drug dealer disguised as a Deliveroo driver was filmed getting knocked down by a police car and arrested amid an intensifying crackdown on moped crime in London.

Footage from a street camera showed the moped rider getting cut off at the end of a residential road by the police vehicle, as another marked car closes in behind.

The driver - wearing the distinctive turquoise jacket of Deliveroo riders - then attempts to make good his escape on foot before being chased down by Met Police officers.

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