Some sort of similar system operates in Milton Keynes. The (legal) e-scooters are disabled if they try to enter the pedestrianised shopping centre.

I shall be contacting my local Police and Crime Commissioner, recommending - Budgets permitting - the establishment of a new dedicated police unit tasked with pursuing felons involved in "electronic" related crime such as thefts of high-end electronic devices or heists carried out aboard e-scooters or EVs.

To be known as i-Plod.

.... it's one that uses a signal to turn the unit off only known to Plod and the scooter manufacturer ....

It might start off like that, but it would be 'leaked' before long, you can be certain.

as far as I can see the police have a total blind spot for illegally used electric scooters. I saw a near miss between an OAP walking out of her garden gate and a "youth" doing 30mph on the pavement just down the road from my house. I'm in a quiet town and I see them going wooosh up the street all the time. In cities the problem is out of control

Not just 'yoofs' - a local middle-aged woman who works at Tesco rides back and forth to work on the pacement at high speed on one in my area. I often see almost as many train commuters using them now (instead of Brompton bikes) as yoofs.

I still think they look stupid riding one - takes me back to the 'Back to the Future' film series where little kiddies were using them...

I suspect Plod mught 'take an interest' if the person affected says they had been 'misgendered' or suchlike...