UK Government Determined to Fight Mobile Phone Crimes

On the verge of increasing mobile phone crimes, UK Government has implored the mobile phone companies to come out with new innovations that can beat off people from theft.

According to the figures, an alarming rate of 228 mobile phones are being stolen from UK every hour. It is also reported that a lot of children have been attacked for their mobile phones, and most parents in UK are concerned about the safety of their children.

“Beyond making profits, mobile phone manufacturers have a social and corporate responsibility to  tackle mobile phone crimes.”, says Alan Campbell, Minister of Crime Prevention. “Besides, this is a good opportunity for UK to promote a new technology worldwide.”, he adds.

Mr. Campbell pointed out how the innovations in car industry, such as immobilisers has helped in the reduction of car theft. Decisively, he believes that a new technology can effectively reduce the mobile phone theft, which has become a social menace of the present days.

Michael O’Hara, a dignitary from GSMA says that the body welcomes any kind of innovations that can defend mobile phone crimes.

The requests from the Government came immediately after the Home Office announced the winners for designs in crime prevention contest.

The three winning designs include an ‘I-migo mobile phone alarm‘ that wails when the mobile phone moves ten metres away from its owner, a ‘Tie‘ solution that protects the data stored on the mobile phone, by electronically matching a handset to a SIM card, and a  ‘TouchSafe‘ that aims at making the mobile phone transactions (M-Commerce) more secure. These winning designs will be showcased during the Mobile World Congress 2010, at Barcelona from 15th -18th February.

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