London Mayor asks manufacturers of smartphones to help in the fight against phone thieves
The Mayor of London , Boris Johnson wrote a letter to the largest manufacturers of smart phones, including Apple, Samsung and Google, to ask for help in the fight against street theft of mobile devices. Johnson wants the manufacturers have brought their know-how in the fight against crime and allowed easier to identify stolen mobile devices and return them to their rightful owners.
According to him, the street stealing smartphones have become a real scourge of London in the last couple of years, only in the last year the number of calls to the police for about the stolen devices grew by 12%, and only about 75% of private statements to the police - this statement about the theft of a smartphone. Monthly London police handles about 10,000 allegations of theft devices. In a letter to leading manufacturers, as well as companies BlackBerry, Microsoft, Nokia and Sony, Johnson asked to show more attention to the security functions of the phone thieves.
"We need companies and manufacturers who supply smartphones and services for them, taking into account the problem of theft," - said in the letter. "If we want to prevent theft and to prevent a crime that will make your customers victims, we need constructive engagement and a clear demonstration of that your company is serious about corporate responsibility, "- says Johnson. letter to the mayor asking companies to interact with law enforcement on this issue.
"Every manufacturer strive to improve the reliability of devices, software and hardware systems, but we expect the same effort to the unit resisted the street theft, as well as the feasibility of these devices in the secondary market," the letter says the mayor. "We hope that you will support this goal. Customers and shareholders need to be sure that the company is not only interested to sell as many devices on the market "- says the mayor. Companies proivoditeley so far they have not responded to the letter.
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