Met Police launches crackdown on mobile phone thefts
The “industrial scale” crimes of “industrial scale” crimes across London resulted in 230 people arrested by Metropolitan police in the past week.
The force said in its fight against the “scourge of cell phone crime” that it also seized more than 1,000 cell phones.
The Mets deployed regular officials in “hot spots” areas including the West Side and Westminster, and also used tracking technology to recover calls and capture criminals.
It said its work has been “intensified” to deal with the £50 million annual trade in the capital’s stolen mobile phones, and people responsible for theft, handling and backward crime supply have been targeted.
Metropolitan PoliceIt was conducted late Thursday in the chair of Home Secretary Yvette Cooper in the smartphone theft.
Metropolitan Metropolis said Dame Lynne Owens, Home Secretary and Deputy Commissioner of the Conference, will discuss improving cell phone security to prevent easy resale of stolen devices.
Recent victim Richard told the BBC that his cell phone theft made him feel “discomfortable”.
Richard said he was walking along Highbury Fields in north London when someone in a “completely black” snatched his phone from his hands in an electronic bike.
“It’s frustrating because that’s where this kind of thing usually happens. I always tell people to be careful, but one day I forgot, my phone went far away.”
He said he was angry at first, but his thoughts quickly became concerned about the bank details that the thief had obtained – although it didn’t happen.
Richard said police were “surprised” at the stolen phone.
He explained how officials visited him at home, and by using a tracker they could see his equipment had been taken to a telephone repair shop, and Richard said police said police had said there had been any crime.
Despite this, the phone still cannot be restored.
The police responded to the crime clearly as other Londoners said, even recently.
In December, a designer from Tottenham told the BBC that her feeling was unaffected after her phone was stolen and eventually used tracking technology to track it.
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Getty Images“We’re seeing industrial-scale theft of phone theft, which is the millions of dollars that criminals can easily sell on stolen equipment here or abroad,” said Metropolitan CDR OWAIN RICHARDS.
“By strengthening our efforts, we are catching more perpetrators and protecting people from stealing their phones in the capital.”
He added that there were calls on other agencies and governments to do more, while tech companies made stolen phones unusable.
The force hopes that the telephone industry will prevent stolen phones from reconnecting to cloud services.
Metropolitans say it has used stalking technology, as well as reporting victims of phone misappropriation, recently sued four members of a gang and was later sentenced to 18 years in prison.
The gang was caught more than 5,000 stolen mobile phones.
Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan said the Metropolitans “learn the lead in targeted work to prevent and resolve cell phone theft in London”, adding: “I am determined to eliminate cell phone theft in our city. Scourge.”
Police’s advice:
- Use the National Mobile Register so that you can restore your recovered mobile phone Police National Mobile Property Register (NMPR)
- Set up strong passwords and two-factor authentication
- Close message preview so that the pirate can’t see any messages
- Write down and safely store your phone’s IMEI number
