Mobile phone theft/ snatch safety

Mobile phone theft/ snatch safety

Here’s the latest on mobile phone theft in your area.

Now the Summer Holidays are over and schools return this week please can we remind everyone how easy it is to have your mobile phone snatched from your hand. Be Mindful, Be Aware.
In this last week there have been 2 snatches, both suspects on E bikes in Forest Hill.
It only takes a little thought to prevent this crime.
Kind regards
PCSO Andrea

We’ve put hundreds more officers on the frontlines of community crime-fighting teams, upping visible patrols in the right ‘hot spots’ so we can deter and catch criminals. These officers are working hard to bear down on mobile phone crime in London, arresting phone thieves on the street, shutting down vendors trading stolen devices and dismantling international criminal gangs.

We have now almost halved phone theft in Westminster, where it was most concentrated, following an intensive crackdown which has seen hundreds of arrests and thousands of phones recovered. After campaigning by the Met, Apple has also made a global change to its security system that better ensures stolen phones cannot be reused or resold – disrupting a highly organised international business model worth millions.

But we know there is more to do. That’s why we’re stepping up our use of technology, increasing our operations and working with phone companies to make it less appealing for criminals to commit these crimes in the first place.

You can report an incident of theft online at https://www.met.police.uk.