A clampdown on the "industrial-scale" crime of mobile phone-snatching across London has resulted in 230 people being arrested by the Metropolitan Police in the past week. In its battle against the "scourge of mobile phone crime", the force said it had also seized more than 1,000 handsets.

The Metropolitan Police has arrested 230 people and seized more than 1,000 phones in a week. The force targeted those involved in stealing, handling and supplying stolen phones in a week of "co-ordinated activity" across London in a bid to disrupt the “£50 million-a-year trade in stolen phones".