00:00I think what we're seeing now is that we're known for leading the world's efforts to tackle this problem.
00:05In the centre of London, in Westminster, it's now running at half the rate it was a year ago.
00:11We've also been putting pressure on the tech companies,
00:12and those tech companies have started to change their security software to help defeat these criminals.
00:18So the other thing that we're announcing today with Apple is a joint intelligence approach.
00:23So if we share the data we have on the phone stolen
00:26with the data they have on things like reactivations and future uses of phone,
00:31we can get a global picture of phones being stolen, are they being reactivated,
00:35are they being broken down for parts, where they're being exported to in the world.
00:38And we're already seeing that, whereas a few months ago,
00:42the majority of stolen phones were being reactivated because of security flaws,
00:46now with the security improvements, it's the minority being reactivated.
00:50That means it's harder for criminals to profit, and that will help bring down the crime further.
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