Emma Van Der Hoek was walking home, listening to music, texting a friend, when she felt someone brush up beside her. "The next thing I know, he just snatched my phone out of my hand. It happened very ...

A gang behind the UK’s largest mobile smuggling network, which trafficked up to 40,000 stolen phones to China, has been ...

LONDON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - London's Metropolitan Police this week launched an expanded fleet of e-bikes to tackle criminals committing street crimes such as phone thefts in the British capital, with ...

Police say up to 40,000 phones were smuggled - the equivalent of around 40% of devices stolen in London.

Police say fewer people in London are getting their phones stolen by criminals speeding by on bikes and mopeds thanks to a dedicated task force with an "eye in the sky." ...

The Met have busted a gang responsible for 40% of the offences - and dialled down a crime that was previously the scourge of the capital's streets ...

The Standard was invited to see inside the Met’s operations as the force claims victory against the capital’s street ...

Phone thefts across London continue to draw attention and concern from both residents and visitors. One gym is calling out crime in the popular city by launching a campaign of self-defense. The chain ...

LONDON — Sirens screamed as police vans pulled into a north London street, and shocked passersby paused to watch as officers charged into three secondhand phone shops. “Do you have a safe on your ...