Thousands of phones seized from robbers in City of London summer crackdown on gangs ‘profiting from misery’

Detective Chief Superintendent Mandy Horsburgh, Head of Crime and Specialist Operations at the City of London Police, said: “The City of London Police are at the forefront of the fight back against all those involved in phone theft criminality, whether this is snatching phones from people’s hands, using distraction techniques, handing the stolen goods or trying to export devices out of the country.