By: 26 Aug 2015 at 11:08, John Leyden
Leicestershire – slap-bang in the middle of rural England – has leapfrogged London as the UK’s electronic device-theft capital, according to a comparison of police force stats.
A series of FoI (Freedom of Information) requests by ViaSat showed 51 per cent of thefts in Leicestershire were of electronic devices, compared with 27 per cent in London and 19 per cent nationwide.
The stats covered reports of the theft of devices such as computers, smartphones and tablets that could store sensitive personal information. Electronic kit accounted for 31 per cent of thefts reported to West Midlands Policefull article
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