Crime · 28 April 2026
Met arrests six phone thieves in London tourist hotspots
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Six suspected phone thieves have been arrested in a Met Police operation targeting London's busiest tourist areas. Officers in plain clothes patrolled Southbank, Borough Market and Waterloo from late Friday into the early hours of Saturday, the force confirmed today. The crackdown follows a sharp rise in handset thefts across central London, with snatch robberies in tourist zones now one of the Met's top operational priorities.
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