Around €5 million worth of mobile phones have been stolen in Ireland over the last 20 months.
But Gardaí say of the eleven and a half thousand phones taken since January last year, only 10% are recovered.
They're appealing to people to be "Streetwise" and to download a trusted "find my phone" app.
Garda divisions in Dublin accounted for the biggest number of stolen handsets, followed by the likes of Limerick, Kildare, and Galway.
Garda Crime Prevention Officer Graham Kavanagh is urging people to download a trusted "find my phone" app and to add an emergency contact number:
