Archive for May, 2006

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

A list of all theft reports

You can now view a list of all handbag theft reports, with further details where available. To view this you can either click on the one you are interested in on the map page and click “Further details”, click on Reports in the top right hand corner, or simply click here. It makes interesting reading!

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Friday, May 19th, 2006

There are good people out there!

A great story from John:
I found a bag ditched in Arlington Road, Camden, last month. I’m assuming it was pinched off Camden High Street, as Arlington Rd is parallel to it.
It was a black woman’s handbag with a Swedish passport (tourist?) and house keys - no money, of course.
I called the police but they couldn’t [...]

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Saturday, May 13th, 2006

More bag thefts reported

Thank you for your bag theft reports so far, please continue to report them using the form on the map page. One unfortunate user reports:
Although the cards were stopped immediately the thief has been able to set up 6 direct debits on my bank account. My only revenge is that he must have to listen [...]

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Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

First crimes added

The first four handbag thefts in London have been added to the map, three being theft of entire bags and one being the theft of credit cards from a bag.
Please continue to send me details of any crimes, using the form on the map page. As much detail about the location as possible would be [...]

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Sunday, May 7th, 2006

Welcome

This site reports on the widespread problem of hand bag thefts across London and the rest of the UK. This is an “unreported” crime as it is not possible to get these statistics broken down by theft type from the Government.
Any reports received are then mapped here to provide an overview of where the crime [...]

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