Iggest thefts come F om firms' own staff
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IE S by staff of companies vol ed in the transit of ad account for up to 80 per at if the losses of goods in Ins t, says Suffolk Chief ins ble S. L. Whiteley.
S. king at the launching he Road Haulage so i ation's Hands Off Our eig t (Hoof) campaign at art esham, Suffolk, last ?ek he said that the criminal keft from transport crime uld be as high as £100 miln.
"T is gives ample scope for ne transport workers at all /els to improve the indust's s ability, to help the counes conomy and to present th public a true and better ag of the transport worker an e has hitherto suffered," Id r Whiteley.
He dded that it was hoped at real reduction in the vel of thefts of goods in ins would be achieved by the Hoof campaign and that there would be more attention focussed on security and antitheft precautions.
Mr Whiteley said that he appreciated the efforts of the RHA in combating crime. "I only hope that other industries take note and do something constructive," he said.
He hit out at attitudes to theft and criticised the public for not regarding thefts by employees' or shop-lifting as acts carried out by criminals.
"Crime prevention is not a matter that can be left solely to the police — it is beyond us and beyond our resources," he said.
The campaign is to come to its climax on Sunday at the CM Lorry Driver of the Year finals at Cranfield, with a security display laid on by Bedfordshire police and makers of security devices.
Mr Whitely added that during the last Hoof campaign in 1975, 136,000 posters and crime prevention leaflets were circulated and a similar number was to be distributed during this campaign.
Of the 2.5m indictable offences reported to police last year, 80 per cent were theft or associated crimes and the rate at which the crimes are solved is now less than half of those reported.
"Crime prevention is something that must concern all of us, employer, employee, young and old," said Mr Whiteley.