Radio 4 today mobile phone theft

[GeoffF100]

The crime rate is about a third higher where I live in West Yorkshire than in London, but it is about a third lower in Devon and Cornwall:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/866 ... by-region/

Here are the ONS figures for the UK as a whole for the year ending September 2023:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulation ... tember2023

Figure 2 says that 0.6% of people experienced "theft from person" (which is much more than the Met number for mobile phones). 1.48% suffered from criminal "computer misuse". It looks like mobile phones are more likely to be hacked than stolen.

Methinks the point was not directly about the crime rate, but rather that London has so many visitors - notably millions of commuters - that the 9 million figure you had used invalidates your conclusion.

That would make the rate of mobile phone theft lower for London, which would make it even harder to reconcile with the national rate of "theft from person" for the UK as a whole. What proportion of thefts from person do you think are mobile phone thefts? Is London hugely more law abiding than the rest of the country?

[newlyretired]

One really useful nugget of information on the programme was the emergency telephone number 159 which can be used to quickly contact any bank to report fraudulent activity. It's now stored in my phone.

...unfortunately 159 is not yet available with Zen

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