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THE number of depot breakins has risen alarmingly over the past year, and having a guard on duty at night is no longer the deterrent it once was.
Now there are gangs of thieves actually specialising in the break-in of depots, claims Road Haulage Associatio-n Security Advisor Jack Brown.
Last week an Atlas Express depot at Southend was broken into by a gang of three. They drove up in a van, tied the guard up, threw him in the back of the van and went to work.
The guard managed to free himself and alert the police before the thieves could take anything.
The Southend depot is a general depot, but break-ins are happening in all kinds of depots — both specialist and general, large and small. In London the trend ap to be that more depot getting hit towards the End.
Depot guards need a: help they can get, Mr B told CM.
One system of protec especially valuable tc smaller firms unable to s much money on securi. what Mr Brown calls good neighbour telepl system".
"Audible alarms are ft some cases," says Mr Br "but a guard on his doesn't know if he's goir be hammered that n harder when a gang re he's pressed the button.
"The 'good neighbour tern' costs nothing but price of a few 'phone calls could prevent thieves ge away with a break-in.
"The idea is that seN