{"id":85065,"date":"2026-02-17T07:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85065"},"modified":"2026-02-17T07:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:32:09","slug":"children-are-being-recruited-on-social-media-to-steal-phones-before-school-for-400-eachthen-do-it-all-over-again-if-they-are-bailed-admits-met-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/17\/children-are-being-recruited-on-social-media-to-steal-phones-before-school-for-400-eachthen-do-it-all-over-again-if-they-are-bailed-admits-met-police-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Children are being recruited on social media to steal phones before school for \u00a3400 each\u2026then do it all over again if they are bailed, admits Met Police chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2026\/02\/16\/15\/106368335-15558007-The_boy_was_allegedly_stealing_phones_on_behalf_of_a_criminal_ga-m-10_1771257208896.jpg\" alt=\"The boy was allegedly stealing phones on behalf of a criminal gang which would ship them to Algeria\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Children as young as 14 are being recruited on social media to steal mobile phones before school for \u00a3400 each, it can be revealed. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15558007\/Children-recruited-social-media-steal-phones-school-400-bailed-admits-Met-Police-chief.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Children as young as 14 are being recruited on social media to steal mobile phones before school for \u00a3400 each, it can&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Second-hand-phone-market-UK.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85066,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85065\/revisions\/85066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}