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PARKED VEHICLE THEFTS DROP
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TATEST Metropolitan Police figures show
a total of 2,127 thefts of and from goods vehicles in London during the first half of 1967—lowest for the past four years. The value of goods stolen has also fallen although there is a "disappointing drop" in the value of goods recovered, comments the RHA vehicle security committee.
Of £317,000 worth of goods stolen from commercial vehicles in the street, only goods valued at £3,373 were recovered. None of the hi-jacked goods (value £139,321) were recovered.
Members of Vehicle Observer Corps are now paid rewards of £10 for finding a stolen vehicle with the load intact and £2 if the vehicle is empty. Rewards paid since the beginning of 1967 total £36.
The Vehicle Observer Corps is composed of volunteers from the staff of goods vehicle operators who patrol a pre-arranged section of streets in cars when details of a stolen vehicle are made available. The first VOC began to operate five years ago in London and there are now VOC over a wide area of Britain.
The work has recently been supplemented by the assistance of armoured vans of security companies in direct radio contact with a central office.
Says Mr. J. T. Brown, chairman of the vehicle security committee: "Vehicle Observer Corps now strengthened with the assistance of armoured vans and even of helicopters must have played a considerable role in halting the rise in the incidence of lorrydragging which until a few years ago was increasing at an alarming rate."