Police questioned a group of moped delivery drivers during an immigration crackdown on Wednesday as 20 vehicles were seized.
Metropolitan Police officers pulled the drivers over on a busy road in Wandsworth, south London, cordoning the area off with traffic cones.
Footage, recorded from a passing bus, shows officers speaking to several motorcyclists who have dismounted from their vehicles, many of whom have food delivery boxes on the back.
Constables can be seen examining the boxes, with one insulated Just Eat bag seen by the side of the road, and a large flat-bed truck carrying seemingly dozens of mopeds can also be seen.
It is understood that the police acted as part of a pre-planned operation around vehicle crime, with Met officers alongside Home Office immigration enforcement officers arresting two people under Section 24 of the Immigration Act 1971, seizing a number of vehicles including electric scooters.
One Pakistani national was arrested as an overstayer during the operation, and one Indian national was arrested for breach of immigration bail, while the mopeds and electric scooters were seized for allegedly being stolen, with others said to have been used in the theft of other vehicles.
A Home Office spokesperson told the Daily Mail: “Illegal working undermines honest employers, undercuts local wages and fuels organised immigration crime.
“This Government will not stand for it. Since coming into power, the Government has increased immigration enforcement action to the highest level in British history, with an 83 per cent rise in illegal working arrests and 77 per cent rise in raids.”
A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said: “Local officers carried out a pre-planned operation aimed at tackling uninsured or unlicensed drivers in Wandsworth on Wednesday, 25 March.
“20 vehicles were seized, and dozens of traffic offence reports were submitted to drivers that were stopped.”
The Government has been cracking down on asylum seekers taking jobs for delivery firms, and ministers announced last year that they would share information about asylum hotel locations with food delivery firms in a bid to disrupt the practice.
Asylum seekers in the UK are normally barred from work while their claim is being processed.
Many food delivery companies including Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Just Eat have said they would ramp up facial verification and fraud checks to stop people working as riders without permission.
