London police crackdown on phone snatching sees 230 arrests in one week

The metropolitan police suppression in the field of a telephone rupture in London led to an arrest of 230 people, and more than 1000 phones were found in just one week.

The police service also said that the gang found guilty of handling more than 5,000 stolen phones was sentenced to 18 years in prison …

London Police Suppression on a fight on the phone

BBC News It reports that the police used a combination of phone tracking and deploying officers from equal terms in known crime sites to catch thieves.

The ignition of an “industrial” crime of a mobile phone throughout London led to the fact that last week the arrest police arrested 230 people. In her fight against “jumping crime on a mobile phone”, force said that she also captured more than 1000 phones.

It stated that his work was “increased” to combat the trade of 50 million pounds per year stolen phones throughout the capital, and they are all responsible for theft, processing and further criminal proposal.

The most common tactics used by thieves of smartphones is to ride on stolen scooters and Ebikes in search of people using their phones on the street. Then they go to the sidewalks, rising behind the victims to tear the devices.

At first, the security problems forced the police to stop the scooter racers, when the risks for riders were considered too high. Nevertheless, after the public complaints on this subject, the policy was changed, which allowed the employees to continue the persecution and use “tactical contact” to knock them down from vehicles.

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The introduction of Apple activation blocking in 2013 led to a sharp reduction in the thefts of the iPhone in some cities, although the influence was variable, since they could still be stolen for details.

A later launch of a combination of details was proposed by a further restraining factor, although practice turned out to be extremely contradictory due to DIY repair problems. Apple later provided a solution for this process of spare parts of the “blessing”.

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