{"id":28146,"date":"2025-07-28T07:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/28146\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T07:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:03:06","slug":"uk-accounts-for-two-fifths-of-mobile-phone-thefts-in-europe-insurer-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/28146\/","title":{"rendered":"UK accounts for two-fifths of mobile phone thefts in Europe &#8211; insurer report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The data, first published by The Times, comes as police continue to address rising incidents of phone snatching. According to the Metropolitan Police, around 80,000 mobile phones were reported stolen in London in 2023. The force has described the activity as part of an \u201corganised criminal enterprise\u201d, estimating the combined street value of the stolen devices at around \u00a320 million. iPhones were cited as a frequent target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The data, first published by The Times, comes as police continue to address rising incidents of phone snatching.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[304,17474,59,57,58,50,17473,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-28146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-apple","tag-european-markets","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-phone-theft","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}