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Nicholas Cecil

London’s streets need ‘protecting’ to stop mobile phone theft epidemic, says minister

The streets of London need to be “protected” to stop the epidemic of mobile phone thefts, a minister said on Thursday.

Asked about a report that a mobile phone is stolen every six minutes in the capital and that the recovery rate was 1.9 per cent, policing minister Chris Philp said he was “deeply concerned by those figures as a Londoner”.

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