I'm actually in favour of this

they should have done that a long time ago , and if the moped rider gets hurt then tough 

+100

Once you decide to start stealing bags and phones using mopeds then whatever happens is their own fault.

I’m with you, Corners. I thought it to be one of the most effective policing methods I’ve seen introduced for dealing with modern day crime. 

They aim to bump them at as slow a speed as possible so if the thief is travelling at, say, 40mph and the police bike at 45, it’s a 5mph impact and not as drastic as the footage might lead you to believe. 

Can't say I disagree!  (I'm firmly for significantly reduced rights for those that want to remove themselves from accepted society by crime).

.....however, it will be interesting to see what happens (especially for the officer in charge of the police car) following the first fatality of this blatantly highly dangerous practice, when a criminal gets dragged along under the police car and the event is streamed live on facebook by a member of the public... followed by gang riots on the street for the "poor criminal victim of police brutality"!

Will they hang the police driver out to dry?

It does smack a little bit of 'Judge Dredd' to me?!

Waiting for the wring of hands from those who by their "interfering"in the past has allowed the situation to get to the level it has,it is the same with knife crime,  and those who said stop and search by the police was interfering with human rights,

the police are also useing dna sprays on"fleeing" suspects to identify them later

The report says that it is only used at low speeds

And the police are using slimline motorbikes rather than cars. 

and in the ones on the footage, they all seem to get up rather quickly, and some run away!

the police also are saying that in the past if the rider being chased removed their crash helmet the chase was scaled back,but now they continue

Some seemed to fall off unaided.