With phone snatching on the rise, we look into the latest statistics revealed by the Met Police.
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00:00Police! Stay where you are! Stay where you are, police!
00:04Adam, is your phone missing?
00:06Stay there, police.
00:09At this point, you're under arrest for theft.
00:11The reason I'm arresting you is we just found a stolen phone on you...
00:15A crackdown on the widespread crime of mobile phone snatching
00:20across London has led to 230 arrests
00:23by the Metropolitan Police in just one week.
00:27In its fight against the growing problem of mobile phone theft,
00:31the force revealed it had also seized over 1,000 stolen phones.
00:36Plainclothes officers have been stationed in the key hotspot locations
00:41such as the West End and Westminster,
00:43with the police also utilising advanced tracking technology
00:47to recover phones and apprehend suspects.
00:50The Met emphasised that its efforts have been intensified
00:54to tackle the £50 million-a-year mobile phone theft trade in the capital,
00:59targeting those involved in theft-handling stolen goods
01:03and the illegal supply chain.
01:05Now, the police have released footage of phone snatching attacks in the capital
01:09and arrests made in Soho and around the city.
01:17Mate, just stay there and show me your hands for a second.
01:20You're going to be detained on the second one of the police.
01:22That's right. Put your hand behind your back right now.
01:28This has come after the Met Police and tech companies
01:31pledged to work closer together to tackle smartphone theft.
01:36You are the only one on this channel at the moment.
01:39Currently, we do not have a tactical resolution until more TPAC units come down, over.
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01:54Police!
01:55Police!
01:56Police!
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02:20During a recent summit, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper urged tech companies
02:25including Apple, Samsung and Google to join forces with the police
02:30to improve anti-theft measures and make smartphones effectively worthless to criminals.
02:37The Met's commander, Owen Richards, said that they are seeing theft on an industrial scale
02:42by criminals making up millions by easily selling on the devices.
02:47He added that intensifying efforts are catching up more perpetrators
02:51and protecting people from having their phones stolen in the capital.