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High-tech cameras join fight against crime
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POLICE SAY A £2m investment in automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras across Midlands motorways will play a key role in fighting truck crime.
The investment means that patrolling police officers will he alerted to the location of a stolen truck almost as soon as it is recorded by one of the cameras.
Operation Indicate, the dedicated unit fighting truck crime
in the West Midlands, is now urging drivers to use their mobile phones to send the police details of stolen or suspicious vehicles by -proinptext' messaging.
Detective Constable Andrew Round, Indicate's intelligence officer, says: "The cameras are spread out over the whole region and more cameras are corning on line all the time."
He adds that since the system began operating at the end of last year. several arrests have been made, including one where a tractor unit had been stolen in Bedfordshire and another where a consignment of wine had been stolen from a trailer in Derbyshire.
The number for sending promptext messages is 07786 200 218. Details can also be sent by phone to 0121 626 9121 or 07967 704203: and by fax to 0121 6269100.