London has become the European capital of mobile theft. Be very careful if you’re going to travel on it, as 90,864 were stolen in 2022 alone.
If you are traveling to London this summer, be very careful with your mobile. Smartphone thefts on the rise in English cities The number is alarming As in 2022 a mobile is stolen every 6 minutes. In total, 90,864 robberies were recorded, 250 per day. To stop this problem, Police have sought help from mobile developers.
Software improvements to prevent stolen phones from being reused
The situation is alarming, which has made many tourists think twice about traveling there. To stop this wave, Mayor Sadiq Khan urged mobile developers to work together with the police. The aim is to implement software so that stealing mobile phones is not so profitable for thieves. Apple and Samsung have already been contacted.
70% of burglaries in the UK capital involve mobile phones They are easy objects to move and easy to reconfigure for new uses. This is precisely what makes them a product worth stealing. In this regard, the Chief of Police, Mark Rowley, commented that “the practice of being able to reset a mobile so that another user can use it without targeting the mobile industry, is what encourages a criminal mobile market that leads to robberies, muggings and violence. In London”.
In past years The city suffered a wave of theft of car radios and navigators, but it was discontinued due to cooperation between the police and the developers of these devices. It seems that the mayor’s office and the police want to transfer this cooperation. At the moment there are applications to find stolen mobiles, but more are needed.
Young people are the biggest victims of this wave, since 14 to 20 year olds are the main targets of thieves. But they are the biggest culprits. Tourists are also obvious targetsSomething especially alarming, considering that in 2022 about 15 million will visit the capital.
“Rising cost of living threatens to increase violence and robbery, which disproportionately affects” Mayor Sadiq Khan has commented on this growing evil incident.
