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• A revamped anti-theft scheme due to be launched next year could offer advice on which trucks are hardest to steal.
The Construction Industry Theft Scheme, which already provides a register of member companies' plant and vehicles, is to update its operation by offering a register of security devices and vehicles that have passed— and failed—police theft tests.
The new scheme, called the Equipment Register, will also inform all UK police forces and port authorities, possibly daily, of theft details.
It will also pass on police assessments of immobilising equipment under the Association of Chief Police Officers' anti-theft scheme, SSPACT. To win ACP0 approval, security equipment must withstand five minutes of attack.
CITS chairman John Clarke, managing director of pipeline contractor ALHCO, says the Equipment Register's long-term aim will be to include a list of commercial vehicles that pass and fail the five minute attack.
And he still holds out the possibility of legal action against Ford, alleging that Transit vans are too vulnerable to theft and therefore "not fit for purpose" (CM 23-29 June).