“Double Pass”: TV expert Tabea Kemme shows how she caught a pickpocket

ex-soccer player
With “classic arm lever”: TV expert Tabea Kemme leads pickpocket away

Before her assignment as an expert in the top game in the Bundesliga, Tabea Kemme became well-known with a pickpocket. Her professional experience as a police officer stood her in good stead.

Since this season, Tabea Kemme has been part of the team of experts that analyzes the top games in the Bundesliga on the pay-TV broadcaster Sky. In this capacity, the former DFB international is of course on the move throughout Germany, mostly by train. According to her own statement, she experienced an unusual encounter on Saturday.

Before the game between Borussia Mönchengladbach and Schalke 04 (0-0), she became acquainted with a pickpocket, Kemme told Sky and on Sunday morning in the Sport1 “Doppelpass”, where she was a guest. The man pulled her cell phone out of her pocket. But he had obviously made the bill without the ex-soccer player.

Tabea Kemme is a trained police officer

“I noticed it right away and ran after the perpetrator,” reported Kemme in “Doppelpass”. She asked the perpetrator to give her back the cell phone, which he did. The man even apologized. But the 31-year-old didn’t want to leave it at that. She wanted to take the criminal to the police, but the police refused to come.

In this situation, however, Kemme benefited from the fact that she had many years of professional experience as a police commissioner. In September 2017, she completed her studies to become a police inspector at the Police College of the State of Brandenburg and worked in this area alongside her sporting career.

Pickpocket caught with armbar

Kemme explained that she then used the “classic arm lock” against the mobile phone thief, in which the perpetrator’s arm is twisted behind his back – and immediately demonstrated the technique to “Doppelpass” moderator Florian König. Then she took the man away and waved over the security service. An episode that, by the way, should have been much more exciting than the 0-0 in the following Bundesliga game.

Tabea Kemme played 47 times for the German women’s national team and won the German championship four times and the Champions League in 2010 with Turbine Potsdam. In 2020 she had to end her career after a knee injury. As a television expert, she is regularly on duty in the Bundesliga and Champions League on Sky and Amazon Prime Video, and she followed the World Cup in Qatar for Magenta TV.

Source: sports 1