The criminal organisation is believed to have smuggled up to 40,000 stolen phones from the UK to China over the past 12 months – up to 40% of all phones stolen in the capital, the Met said on Monday.
00:00Our local colleagues please stay safe brief and there's lots of unarmed assets driving around trying to help over.
00:08Videos such as this have become a common sight online.
00:13Phones being stolen, often in broad daylight, in central London.
00:18This is an issue which affects a big portion of Londoners, even if for many that only includes people avoiding taking their phone out in public.
00:30The Met's latest and largest ever crackdown on this issue has shun a light on the scale of this problem.
00:38The criminal organisation subject to this Met police operation is believed to have smuggled up to 40,000 stolen phones from the UK to China over the past 12 months.
00:53That is up to 40% of all phones stolen in the capital during that time period.
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