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Faster adion on stolen trucks
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ROADSIDE CAMERAS will soon be capable of alerting police and truck drivers about the location of stolen trucks within 10 minutes of thefts being reported.
At present it takes at least 12 hours before ANPR (automatic number plate recognition) is primed to do this, giving criminals plenty of time to dispose of stolen trucks and their loads.
Bob Quick, chairman of the Home Office-backed Joint Action Group on Lorry'llieft (JAGOLT), says the dramatic reduction in time will be achieved by August thanks to improvements in police computer technology which will be able to update the camera network within minutes. "1 think it will escalate the risk dramatically for thieves,he says. "ANPR makes anyone who gets behind the wheel of a stolen vehicle very vulnerable."
Quick adds: "A lot of patrolling police cars now have ANPR on board so a police car can then intercept that lorry.
"If operators keep us up to date with the phone numbers of their drivers we will be able to alert every truck driver where the police think the stolen lorry is."
At present, the system of using truckers to spot stolen trucks is concentrated in South Yorkshire thanks to the success of its local Truck Watch scheme.
It would cost an estimated I400,000-a-year to run this nationwide. Quick concludes: 1 am meeting with potential funders towards the end of this month and am drafting out a bid to government as well to see if they are prepared to get behind it."