What are police doing to stop phone snatchers? Metro went on patrol to find out

‘Excuse me, please can you help me? My phone was just snatched off me, how do I get it back?’

A woman walked up to a group of four police officers on patrol on Oxford Street, making her the third person who has had her phone snatched in central London that day.

It is a similar tune across the capital – if you haven’t had your phone snatched, you know someone who has.

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