Crime branch Bhopal returned around 72 lost mobile phones tracked at the ‘lost cell phone unit’ in the presence of senior police officers at crime branch on Thursday.
SP Headquarters Rajesh Chandel and Addl SP (Crime branch) Rashmi Mishra handed over lost mobile phones to the 72 owners who were informed to collect their mobile phones on Thursday.
Since the inception in the year 2013 around 22000 complaints have been lodged with the lost cell phone unit and more than 5200 lost mobile phone units were returned to the owners after verification of ownership.The owners were grateful to the crime branch for tracking their device as they have lost the hope of getting their device after it was lost.
lost cell phone unit, a specialized advanced unit started with the aim to search lost mobile phones yielded results in short period which was witnessed after more than 2000 mobile phones were tracked and recovered and later handed over to the owners with few months of it started. Police said that during the investigation among the searched mobile phones few of the phones were found active in the nearby districts while few were found used outside Madhya Pradesh and the teams put hard to bring those mobile phones back and is still working to bring the mobile phones back from across the state and outside the State.The technical teams work hard to track the lost mobile phones.
In the year 2016, in January and March, 51 and 150 mobile phones were returned respectively.