Mobile thefts account for 87% of crimes reported in Delhi Metro

Mobile thefts account for nearly 87 per cent of crimes reported in Delhi Metro, mostly linked to organised syndicates, according to the Delhi Police.

To address this issue, the Delhi Police Metro unit had launched “Mission Reconnect 2.0 – Your Phone’s Journey Back Home” in June.

As part of this initiative, the Metro unit has come up with five specialised teams — a technical unit to trace phones through e-FIR data and technical surveillance, a field unit to catch offenders, a nodal officer unit to coordinate with the police across states, a court facilitation unit to simplify legal procedures through virtual hearings and a reconnecting unit to return phones directly to victims, said Kushal Pal Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Metro).

More than 350 stolen or lost mobile phones worth over Rs 50 lakh had been recovered and returned to their owners, he added. To trace stolen mobiles, the police teams have travelled across more than 15 states to apprehend accused persons, he stated.