April

Love your smartphone? Use a Tracker App to keep it safe

Queen's Students' Union is supporting the campaign to encourage students to use a 'Tracker App' to keep their smartphone safe.

The PSNI have launched an awareness campaign following a report, which indicates that 1,871 mobile phones were reported lost or stolen in South and East Belfast in the last year and only 145 of these phones were subsequently found or recovered.

Things to consider when choosing a tracking application:

* Make sure you download a reputable app (check review sites)

* Make sure the app tracks using GPS (more accurate tracking)

* Remember that once your service provider "blocks" your phone you will not be able to track it

* Some apps have the ability to take covert photographs of the person using the phone, or record their internet usage trail

* Remember, if your device has been stolen and you later track it through one of these apps, let the Police Officer dealing with your case know that you have traced it. Never be tempted to attend the location to recover the property yourself

For further crime prevention advice on mobile phone theft click here.

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Inspector Ray Shaw and Connor Daly, Student Officer Campaigns & Communications, Queen's Students Union, encourage people to use a Tracker App to keep their smartphone safe.