Guidance

Reducing mobile phone theft and improving security: paper 2

An updated insight into mobile phone theft and the impact that security features have had on levels of theft.

• From: Home Office
• Published: 23 March 2016

Documents

Reducing mobile phone theft and improving security: paper 2 (web)

Ref: ISBN 978-1-78655-085-9

PDF, 602 KB, 24 pages

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Reducing mobile phone theft and improving security: paper 2 (print)

Ref: ISBN 978-1-78655-085-9

PDF, 647 KB, 28 pages

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Details

This paper builds on evidence outlined in the 2014 paper ‘Reducing mobile phone theft and improving security’.

It provides a more contemporary picture of mobile phone theft following the introduction of ‘kill switches’ and includes:

• national data from the 2014 to 2015 Crime Survey for England and Wales about mobile phone ownership and theft
• information about particular brands and handsets that were targeted during 2015

Published 23 March 2016