A police chase which saw officers in a boat pursue four jetski riders on the Thames has been captured on film.
The chase, which one onlooker described as looking like something out of an action movie, took place at about 6.30pm on Friday. Sightings were reported on social media from Greenwich to Canary Wharf.
Leigh Jackson, 34, watched part of the chase from his Surrey Quays balcony, where he was enjoying a meal with his partner and his sister.
“You often do see police boats coming up and down here patrolling, but you don’t often see them engaged in a chase,” he said.
Jackson described seeing the vessels “screeching past” towards central London at first.
“Then 15 minutes later they came back the opposite way, again being chased,” he said.
Despite the first part of the chase being exciting, Jackson said he feared an accident could occur involving other river traffic.
Jackson’s girlfriend, Kristina Kuznetsova, filmed the second half of the chase, showing a Metropolitan police boat pursuing three jetskis at speed.
A fourth jetski can be seen hanging back.
The Metropolitan police confirmed on Saturday they had responded to reports of jetskis driving at speed down the Thames.
In a statement, a spokeswoman said: “The jetskis were approaching central London and the Marine policing unit were able to make them change their course.
“Following this, the decision was taken to no longer pursue the jetskis for safety reasons.”
