Expert slams vehicle security improvement
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by Miles Brignall • A police expert on vehicle theft has admitted that it is not worth carrying out comparison tests into truck security systems because they are all so easy to break into.
Keith Brayne, who runs the Metropolitan stolen vehicle unit, gave his views at the British Vehicle Rental & Leasing Association security awards where, for the second year running, no award was given for security improvements in the HGV sector.
The BVRLA admitted that it had "very few" applicants from truck manufacturers. In his speech at the awards, BVRLA president Freddie Aldous said: "It is still very disappointing that we were unable to make an award in the HGV category, which in comparison with the car industry is still doing very little to improve its products."
Crime watch presenter Nick Ross went further, and called for a poster to be made "bearing the picture of the boss of Iveco-Ford, or whoever makes the greatest number of trucks" telling them to take the lead in improving truck security.
He went on to call for the Home Office to make it more difficult for thieves to "ring" vehicles by making it harder to obtain number plates—the UK is currently one of few European countries where anyone can have plates made up without showing any documen tary proof they own the vehicle.
E Ford was named as the manufacturer that is making the biggest improvements to vehicle security in the light CV section; Vauxhall won the volume car section and BMW took the award for luxury cars.