Met Commissioner: mobile phones should not operate once stolen

Police Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley is urging phone manufactures to make phones that will not work once they are stolen.

Speaking to Laura Kuenssberg on the BBC Sunday show, Sir Mark told her he believed that stolen phones should immediately switch off once they become stolen goods.

Sir Mark said this year there had been intensified action by police concerning stolen mobile phones and that it would continue.

He said the police force, this year, had recovered thousands of mobile phones and arrested the guilty.

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