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Met Police amongst forces to be able to search houses without a warrant
National World - LocalTV
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25/02/2025
A new bill introduced will give more power to police to help tackle “snatch theft”.
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A police inspector in London and across the country will be able to sign off an entry
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to a premises rather than waiting for a judge or magistrate in order to act during the golden
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hour just after a threat and increase chances of a conviction.
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Snatch thefts of mobile phones and bags have more than doubled in the past year with more
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than 200 incidents in 2024, a problem particularly rife in the capital.
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But just 0.8% of these thefts led to a charge despite some victims offering police tracking
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devices.
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Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said that for the last few years our towns and cities
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have seen thefts shoot up as organised gangs target mobile phones.
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So how do the Londoners feel about the new law?
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I mean there's a huge risk factor against it I mean it feels like an invasion of privacy
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if anything that's my initial reaction was it does feel like it's just breaching a little
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bit too far into things because you'd want things to feel like you are being protected
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I mean if they are able to you know scan some stuff or search things to a point where you
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feel like your privacy is being lost and then just be able to come into a property
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with just that as evidence doesn't feel like it's sufficient enough.
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I think if they think or if they've got some sort of evidence that something has been stolen
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and the persons are linked with that then I think they can go in without a warrant that's
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my opinion.
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I guess one assumes that the police would like only exercise that power in within the
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context that like where it's a reasonable use of that power.
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It sounds a bit extreme for something as simple as a phone if it was and if the phone was
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part of a bigger crime then I think I would say it could be justified.
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Just for us I'd say if it's part of something bigger then it sounds like it would make sense
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to me.
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I know that it's been a huge thing the last couple of months especially with like phone
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thefts up in London people going around on scooters and stuff like that.
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I can understand that there is going to be a need a course of action to try and find
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out where they go and everything like that but say there is an instance where for some
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reason someone drops it in someone else's garden for some reason and then that person
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gets you know raided for the sake of it because they found it there and then the emotional
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attachment to being raided is not there's a lot of implications to what could happen
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from that.
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