Help! How to enhance video quality to catch thieves?

My phone was stolen the day before yesterday in China. Caught 2 female theives doing the pocket-picking thing under CCTV camera. And I recorded the footage with my camera. Wish to get a closer look at their faces, cuz the local police isnt gonna do anything...
Do anyone know how to do tricks about improving the video quality???
I do wanna catch those bad theives, wanna do it so badly...

You can use sharpening tools like Unsharp Mask.  You can use third party up-rezzing tools to increase size with better quality.
But, realistically, given you only have a camera recording of a video screen of the CCTV, it's very unlikely you'll ever extract much meaningful detail from it.  Don't believe TV shows, image enhancement is not really so advanced. 
Personally, I'd just extract the best still frame of their faces you can find, then use Photoshop to zoom and enhance as much as you can with Unsharp Mask.

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