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\n Police have seized more than 500 suspected stolen phones from a shop in London – as four men are arrested.\n <\/p>\n
Metropolitan Police footage<\/strong> showed a group of officers entering the store and using a large tool to access a padlocked area within the building, revealing shelves stacked with mobile phones.<\/p>\n One officer can be heard saying there were “loads of phones”.<\/p>\n The shop in Kilburn, northwest London, was originally subject to a warrant after intelligence suggested the venue was being used to supply class B drugs.<\/p>\n Four men – aged 22, 25, 34 and 63 – have been arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods, possession of drugs and intent to supply.<\/p>\n Inspector Yu Zhang, from the Met’s local policing team in Brent, said the force understood that “mobile phone theft remains a major concern for Londoners”.<\/p>\n “Seizures such as this show that we are not only targeting individual phone snatchers, but also those who handle and profit from stolen devices,” he added.<\/p>\n Three suspects have been released on bail, and one has been released under investigation.<\/p>\n Metropolitan Police are using intelligence and new technology, such as drones and high-powered Sur-Ron electric bikes, to tackle mobile phone thieves.<\/p>\n Read more from Sky News: Police action has, at least in part, led to a 10,000 drop in the number of reported mobile phone theft offences in London in the past year.<\/p>\n In March, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley<\/strong> said: “If by June industry has not come forward in a genuinely serious, solutions\u2011focused way – with concrete commitments that make stolen phones unusable anywhere in the world – the Met will formally ask the Government to legislate.”<\/p>\n \n
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