How To Avoid Mobile Phone Crime
How to avoid mobile phone crime: VideoJug gets advice from a top policeman Detective Superintendent Mick McNally of the National Mobile Phone Crime Unit on how to avoid getting your mobile phone stolen. Watch these valuable tips as soon as possible!
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Statistics
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Nearly half of all teenagers who have had their mobile phone stolen have had it taken while at school or college. That's according to new statistics from Tesco Mobile and the police. But now a new initiative is being launched to crack down on this kind of thing. I caught up with Detective/Superintendent Mick McNally of the launch campaign.
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Campaign
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We are trying to, at Tesco Mobile, raise the awareness of all mobile phone crime, and with this campaign, making sure you keep your mobile safe and secure. This is done by helping raise awareness about what to do to prevent yourself from becoming a victim of mobile phone crime.
And what should people be doing?
Some key tips are: be safe and secure when you're using the phone, i.e. if you're in the street and using your phone, look around you at your surroundings, and see whether you feel comfortable in making the call in those circumstances, and if not, then use the safety facilities on the phone like the ping and the vibrate facility. And don't make a call if you feel uncomfortable in that situation.
When you're coming out from a tube, or particularly from school aimed at young people, that's the time that often people get their phones out. They are very valuable pieces of property, and to walk with that sort of property pinned to your ear, that can be encouragement to opportunist thieves.
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Repercussions
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What are the potential repercussions of having your phone stolen?
Violent crime, of course, as half of robberies in London involve the mobile phone being stolen. So we really want to raise awareness of young people and parents and tell them what they can do to prevent themselves from being victims of phone crime.
And a key point for that is registering their phone on immobilize.com so that if the phone is stolen, the police have an opportunity to identify that as a stolen piece of property and return it to the owner.
Mick, thank you very much indeed. The message is then, keep it safe and secure.
