Data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales shows 78,000 people had phones or bags stolen from them in the year to March 2024.
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next More than 200 smartphones are snatched every day, driven by an increased demand for second-hand devices here in the UK and abroad. Some 78,000 people had phones or bags stolen from them on British streets in the year to March 2024.
A video grab of a cyclist thief stealing a man’s phone on the street during broad daylight To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next ‘This new government is determined to crack down on snatch theft, knife-enabled robbery, and other crimes that make people feel unsafe in our communities, and we are working to get thousands more uniformed officers into our communities to restore neighbourhood policing.
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