Phone snatchers should receive the same ‘firm and swift’ treatment rioters had this summer for thefts to stop, the head of the Metropolitan Police’s phone robbery squad said.
Detective Superintendent Saj Hussain has insisted those caught snatching devices should be dealt with ‘as swiftly and firmly as rioters were’ this summer as stealing four phones is a ‘similar level of criminality’.
He told Metro: ‘There was a sharp...