Police take down gang behind 40pc of phone thefts in London

Officers arrest 46 suspects in largest clampdown on mobile theft in the UK

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Officers arrest 46 suspects in largest clampdown on mobile theft in the UK

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BBC News is given access to what the Met Police says is the UK's largest operation against mobile phone thefts.

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An organised crime gang was behind ‘industrial scale’ theft of phones being shipped to China, Met Police say

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Watch as police smash down a door whilst conducting a dawn raid on a phone snatching gang suspected of stealing more than…

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Scotland Yard's commissioner hailed the series of raids as the 'biggest counter-phone theft operation in the world.'

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Police deploys drones, e-bikes, and live facial recognition to catch phone thieves

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The Metropolitan Police has seized thousands of stolen items during a huge raid of more than 120 shops. Footage shared by the…

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