The head of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Mark Rowley, has called on phone manufacturers to render stolen devices unusable to combat rising phone thefts in the UK. He highlighted the alarming trend of children being offered as much as £380 to steal iPhones, which leads them into organized crime. The Met Police reported that over 587,000 phones were stolen in London since 2017, with only a small fraction returned to their owners, emphasizing the need for better anti-theft measures.
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