Belsize and Gosepl Oak Ward Update

Belsize and Gosepl Oak Ward Update

Here’s the latest on mobile phone theft in your area.

Theft of phones and property is a horrible crime perpetrated by criminals. But how can you protect yourself from this.

Keep an eye on you phone when at local cafe's/pubs when left on tables
Register your phone on the National Mobile Phone NMPR: The Police National Mobile Property Registry
Ensure any Banking apps on your phones have pins/passcodes
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What have Officers been up to over the last two weeks on their wards and helping other teams

- Arrest of One Individual for Robbery of a mobile phone and threats to kill
- Another Offender arrested for Serious Violence
-Other arrests include Domestic violence and Drugs Possession

As well as other tasks that people often do not realise. Visiting Businesses regarding the sales of Knives, Welfare checks on vulnerable persons, meetings with the local council regarding urgent risks, Visiting places of worship during celebration periods and much more.

We’ve put hundreds more officers on the frontlines of community crime-fighting teams, upping visible patrols in the right ‘hot spots’ so we can deter and catch criminals. These officers are working hard to bear down on mobile phone crime in London, arresting phone thieves on the street, shutting down vendors trading stolen devices and dismantling international criminal gangs.

We have now almost halved phone theft in Westminster, where it was most concentrated, following an intensive crackdown which has seen hundreds of arrests and thousands of phones recovered. After campaigning by the Met, Apple has also made a global change to its security system that better ensures stolen phones cannot be reused or resold – disrupting a highly organised international business model worth millions.

But we know there is more to do. That’s why we’re stepping up our use of technology, increasing our operations and working with phone companies to make it less appealing for criminals to commit these crimes in the first place.

You can report an incident of theft online at https://www.met.police.uk.