Met Police and Apple team up to tackle phone theft in crusade to make stolen handsets ‘unusuable bricks’

He told the Press Association: “If we share the data we have on the phone stolen, with the data they have on things like reactivations and future uses of phones, we can get a global picture of phones being stolen, are they being reactivated, are they being broken down for parts, where they’re being exported to in the world.