AN opportunistic thief intent on robbing a Barcelona restaurant was apprehended by an unlikely impediment – a stag do of British law enforcement officials.
Sergeant Eren Emin, 30, of the Metropolitan Police, was celebrating his stag do with 4 colleagues from the UK’s largest police pressure when a person jumped over a restaurant counter and began to pocket a bunch {of electrical} items.
The group of off-duty officers say ‘intuition’ took over as they ran after the thief and caught him earlier than he may escape.
“I feel policing is extra of an intuition than the rest”, Enfield-based Emin instructed the PA information company.
He added: “I’m a police officer. It’s my job. Wherever we’re, whether or not in Spain, it doesn’t matter, I’ve to do what is true”.
“We had been in a restaurant on the principle strip, ready for meals to return, and he made his means over to the bar space the place the counters are after which he jumped over-the-counter and that’s when he caught our consideration”.
“He began to ransack the tills and take electrical items reminiscent of iPads and iPhones, no matter else was there, earlier than he made his means round after which sprinted outdoors of the restaurant and immediately we stood up and gave chase”.
“It was a case of simply getting him stopped. It’s mistaken. What’s mistaken is mistaken. Widespread sense has to use right here as nicely and that’s why we obtained him detained as rapidly as attainable”.
“I’m fairly identified inside my organisation for arresting individuals off obligation – within the UK, the place I am going, I all the time find yourself attracting or coming throughout crime, which is absolutely unusual, so for me it’s simply one other day”, boasted the officer.
The group chased the person 50 metres up the street earlier than detaining the person.
The male was then taken into custody by the Mossos d’Esquadra, Catalunya’s police pressure, earlier than the British officers returned to proceed celebrating the stag do.
