Britain's top police officer calls on Labour to force phone companies to make it harder to sell mobiles snatched off London's streets

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Britain's most senior police officer is calling on Labour to force phone companies to make stolen devices much harder to sell on, GB News can reveal.

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Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has been on a drive to make mobile devices less desirable to steal ever since London was hit by a phone theft epidemic, which has seen more than 600,000 phones snatched over the last decade.GB News was given exclusive access to follow one of Scotland Yard's most elite units as they joined the fight against the phone thieves.The interceptor teams are highly skilled pursuit officers, able to chase down the increasing number of e-scooters and motorbikes used in street-level phone snatches.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say During the latest 10-day operation, hundreds of specialist Metropolitan Police officers carried out proactive patrols and raided addresses linked to suspected phone thieves.Dozens of suspects, from street-level criminals to members of organised crime groups, were targeted in...

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