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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Anahita Hossein-Pour

Police could search for stolen phones without warrants under new crime Bill

Police would no longer need a warrant to search a property for a stolen phone under measures to be introduced in the Government’s new Bill to tackle crime.

Officers would gain new powers to act in the “golden hour” of investigations to search a place where stolen items have been electronically located, such as through a phone-tracking app, wifi access or Bluetooth.

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