Police find no trail of stolen phones
The Hindu
Most pieces are dismantled for spare parts or end up in other States, making it difficult to trace them
Once you lose your phone, it is difficult for police to trace as most of them are dismantled, and the spare parts end up in other mobile phones.
With rising mobile phone thefts, the chances of tracing them are less than 40 % as the organised mobile phones theft gangs have adopted the practice of dismantling devices and selling them as spare parts, further complicating the process of tracing.
“If the devices are dismantled and the parts are sold separately, we cannot trace them with International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number, as it won’t be active at all,” a senior officer of Hyderabad city police said.
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