Met police launched a crackdown on mobile phone theft

As a result of a clampdown on the “industrial-fame” crime of mobile phone-snatching across London, 230 people have been arrested by the Metropolitan Police in the last week.

In his fight against the “mobile phone crime crisis”, the force stated that it had also confiscated more than 1,000 handsets.

Mate has deployed officers wearing plain-cloth in “hotspot” areas including West End and Westminster, and is also using tracking technology to recover the phone and catch criminals.

It said that its work was “ramp up” to deal with the trade of £ 50 meter-A-Ier in stolen phones in the capital, which was targeted to those responsible for theft, handling and further criminal supply. .

It comes in the form of home secretary Yatek Cooper, who presides over a summit on Thursday on smartphone theft.

Mate said that the Home Secretary and the Deputy Commissioner Dame Lynn Owens discussed the issue of improvement in security over the phone to prevent the stolen equipment from easily protect the stolen equipment.

Recently, a victim, Richard, told the BBC that the theft of his phone made him “uncomfortable nervous”.

Richard said that he was running with Hiibary Fields in North London when someone wore “completely black”, who was riding an e-bike, he snatched his phone from his hand.

He said: “This is disappointing because this is the same thing where this kind of thing happens. I am always asking people to be careful, but for a moment I forgot and my phone went into the distance.”

He said he was initially angry, but his views were soon changed to concerns about his banking details being received by the thief – although it did not happen.

Richard said that he was “surprised” by the police response to the theft of his phone.

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Despite this, the phone could not be recovered.

The way the police responded to this crime, it is different from the fact that whatever other people of London have experienced, it is also recently.

In December, a designer from Tottenham told the BBC how he felt inappropriate by the police after his phone was stolen, and finished using trekking techniques to trace himself.

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CDR Owen Richards of Mate said: “We are watching phone theft on an industrial scale, which are able to easily sell millions of people on stolen equipment or sell it easily here or abroad.

“By intensifying our efforts, we are catching more criminals and to protect people from the theft in the capital.”

He said that there were calls for other agencies and the government to make more, and to make the stolen phones unusable for technical companies.

The force wants the phone industry to stop the stolen handset from being reunited for cloud services.

Met said it used tracking technology, and the victims reported phone-chori, recently to prosecute four members of a gang, who were later sentenced to 18 years in jail.

The gang was caught handling more than 5,000 stolen phones.

London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan said that Met was working targeted to prevent and deal with the mobile phone theft in London “, saying:” I am good to end the mobile phone theft crisis in our city for good I am firm. “

Advice from police:

• Use the National Mobile Phone Register so that the recovered handset can be restored, through Police National Mobile Property Register (NMPR)
• Set a strong password and two-factor authentication
• Stop the message preview so that the thieves do not see any message
• Write below and store the IMEI number of the phone safely