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Link: Pakistan: Technology can help police control mobile snatchings

Tracing and shutting down stolen mobile handsets have been made easy through new technology but the capital police - equipped with batons, teargas shells and rubber bullets - are not using this facility, adding to woes of the victims. The police were completely dependent on the PTA and mobile phone companies for tracing or shutting down snatched mobile phones and this process took months, a senior police official told Daily Times. Over 30 mobile phones have been stolen in the last 56 days and the police are still trying to arrest the thieves and recover the handsets. Police officials fear that mobile snatching will increase if the police are not equipped with modern technology. They said the police requested secret agencies or mobile companies to trace out stolen phones after registering cases. Every case takes months to be resolved, they said, adding that timely action against mobile phone thieves could bring down the rate of street crime.