A bike fitted with a hidden transmitter and used as ‘bait’ by police in Nijmegen to catch thieves has disappeared, just two weeks after being put into action.

Having been used to catch three bike thieves during its test period, the bike was lost on June 7, the police said on Thursday, and is probably in the Waal river.
When the bike showed it was moving, the control room monitoring it notified the police, but it disappeared off the radar while on the river bank. Police dredged the section of the Waal without retrieving the bike.