E-bike Bandits nourish an increase in theft of smartphones, stolen with one device every six minutes in Great Britain.
Almost 84,000 telephone theft were registered in the 12 months until July last year – almost double the 45,800 five years earlier.
As Minister of the Interior Yvette Cooper, it comes to promise a harsh action against thefts of e-bike and more powers for the police to tackle the problem.
She said it was “totally unacceptable” for people to feel unsafe through the streets.
Mrs. Cooper has also called on technology companies, including Apple, Google and Samsung to improve mobile devices security measures.
Almost 84,000 telephone theft were registered in the 12 months until July last year – almost double the 45,800 five years earlier
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper (photo) promised a performance against thefts of e-bike and more powers for the police to tackle the problem
Luxury thefts rose in London last year, according to data from freedom of information of the with the with the period between February 2023 and February 2024 over the period between February 2023 and February 2024
The data from 29 police services, which were obtained by the independent, show that the metropolitan police of London dealt more than three -quarters of all thefts in the mobile phones, with more than 64,000 last year.
This was followed by the police of Kent and the police of South Yorkshire on 1,722 and 1,577 cases respectively.
The Met en City of London also registered nearly 12,500 robbery, such as robberies, for telephones in the period from 12 months to July last year-a rise of almost 12,000 five years earlier.
A man runs casually past a sunny park strip in April before a rider dives from the road and picks up his phone
In another video filmed on Park Lane, a telephone jacker slows down to take the device from a pedestrian before you speed it up
A builder stolen his phone in October at Park Lane, just a stone's throw from the £ 1,345 per night Dorchester Hotel
Victims include Labor MP Chris Webb, who had bent his phone in November last year while he was on his way to his flat in London.
On Wednesday, Scotland Yard said that more than 1,000 stolen phones were seized and 230 people were arrested in a weekly Blitz as commissioner Sir Mark Rowley Vecht back against the epidemic of London's phone.
But inspector then Green said that the rise of the use of illegally modified e-bikes made their work challenging by organized gangs.
The police score a few successes, including against serial telephone thief Sonny Stringer, 28 (who sees a SUR-RON moments here before they are rammed off the road)
“Everywhere you go in London, everywhere, you see people on their phones,” he said. I think [the thieves] Just come in and want to want their arm and if they get three or four telephones, it is a lot of money to get. '
Users and detectives have found stolen phones at locations as far away as North Africa, Dubai and China.
The Bike Association said there are around 550,000 e-bikes in the UK.
However, many riders have adjusted their bikes to reach speeds of up to 70 km / h, with Conversicits available online for only £ 300.
As a result, forces in the United Kingdom seized 937 illegally modified e-bikes in 2023/24, just less than double in the previous 12 months.
