Mobile Crimes

Following the outrageous gun attack on a 19 year old girl for her Nokia 3310 mobile phone, comes alarming figures showing that in excess of 3,000 mobile phones are reported stolen each month in London alone. The main targets are school children who are often confronted by up to 40 other pupils for their prize possession.

Along with the great boom in mobile phone use comes the equal boom in mobile phone crimes. A staggering 15,000 handsets are believed to be stolen each month in the UK alone. Mobile phone theft takes up one third of all street crime in Britain & is soaring. 

The main prime crime time

Police have seen a reoccurring pattern in the time of day most of the thefts take  place and surprisingly enough, its in broad day-light. Children are targeted on their way to school, at school and most of all on their way home from school, with the majority of all thefts happen between 3.30pm and 5.30pm. 

But it does not stop there

Nowadays, mobile phones are in such high demand (for the right ones anyway) people will go to any lengths to get them. This includes high- jacking a lorry full of  Nokia's , injuring the driver in the process and making off with so many phones, that there was £100,000 reward for any information leading to the arrest of these people.

Preventative Measures

All the networks have finally come together to help reduce crime by blocking it across all networks, once it has been reported lost or stolen. There is also up to 7 years now for stealing mobile phones.

It is pretty pointless to rob somebody of their phone, as it will be barred and of no use to the thief.