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Police find no evidence of stolen parts in chop shops
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A NATIONWIDE police investigation has failed to uncover significant evidence of written off trucks being repaired with stolen parts.
The issue was originally raised two years ago by Scania dealer Chris Kelly who claimed this practice was encouraging truck theft.
But Bob Quick, chairman of the Joint Action Group on Lorry Theft (TAGOLT), says an investigation by the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) drew a blank.
Quick, who is also chief constable of Surrey Police,says:"I am not saying it does not happen hut [if it were] systematic we would have expected to see some fairly strong evidence of this from the legitimate side of the industry.
"Nobody has been able to nominate a repairer who is said to he at it," he says.
He adds that NCIS was told to investigate a whole range of intelligence sources but found no evidence to substantiate Kelly's claim.
Kelly, who is chairman of Keltruck in the West Midlands,argued that the insurance industry needed a code of conduct to ensure salvaged trucks did not end up in the wrong hands (CM 20 May,2004).
Kelly resigned as a member of JAGOLT last year and declines to comment about the NCIS findings.