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Phone Theft

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Met and Apple Agree Data Pact to Make Stolen iPhones Harder to Resell

Police say the change could collapse the criminals' business model by removing the resale value of stolen handsets.

Met Phone-Theft Crackdown Nets 15 Arrests In London Hotspots

Met Gives Tech Firms Until June to Make Stolen Phones Unusable or Face Push for Law

Four Arrested in London Dawn Raids Over Alleged Pub Phone-Snatching Ring

Met Police Reports 12% Drop in London Phone Theft After Four-Week Blitz

Khan Proposes 4.1% City Hall Council Tax Rise to Fund Police Phone-Theft Crackdown

Woman Tracks Stolen Phone to South London Park, Finds Cache Buried Under Tree

London Thieves Favor iPhones, Reportedly Returning Androids

MPs Press Home Secretary to Push Tech Giants for Stronger Anti-Theft Phone Locks

Met Police Expose Industrial iPhone Theft Pipeline Shipping Tens of Thousands to China

RPF Constable Raju Choudhary’s Viral Demo Shows How Phones Are Snatched From Train Windows

Ludgate Hill Phone Thief Jailed for 15 Months

Passengers Tackle Suspected Phone Thief at Blackfriars as Police Find Multiple Devices

UK Creator’s Viral Video Says Mumbai Feels Safer Than London for Using Phones

Currys Debuts Purple ‘Mind the Grab’ Line on Oxford Street to Curb Phone Snatches

UK Now Leads Europe in Phone Thefts With 39% of Incidents, Insurance Data Shows

London’s Mobile Phone Theft Crisis Deepens as Model Targeted Twice in Three Months

Police Arrest Snatcher and Bind Woman in Delhi Phone Theft to Erase Affair Evidence

Strictly Come Dancing Stars Targeted by Electric-Bike Phone Snatchers in London

Bridgerton Actress Recounts Cafe Confrontation as Phone Thief’s Sentencing Nears