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With the recent shopping rush, we’ve started to see pickpockets active in our community again. Last year, between mid-November and early January, Halton Police received 110 reports of phone thefts targeting shoppers — a reminder of how quickly these crimes can happen. This video shows how pickpockets work: they...

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