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TruckPol is back thanks to Notts police

20th September 2012
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By Derren Hayes

TRUCKPOL, THE specialist freight crime unit closed in March this year due to a lack of funds earlier this year, is to be resurrected under a new police and road haulage industry initiative, CM can reveal.

From this week, the National Business Crime Forum (NBCF), led by Sergeant Richard Stone of Nottinghamshire Police, will collate intelligence on freight crime received by police and the road haulage industry, and send weekly reports to the Road Haulage Association (RHA) to pass on to its members.

The new intelligence service will retain the name TruckPol and will operate initially on a three-month “developmental phase” to scope the resources needed to run it on an ongoing basis (estimated at up to £100,000 annually).

The RHA will fund the new TruckPol at the level it previously did, and is to approach other former TruckPol subscribers over the coming months to ask if they will do the same.

Chrys Rampley, RHA head of crime and security, said: “We will collect the money from other sponsors and ring-fence it. We may also approach some bigger hauliers and nonmembers to ask them to continue funding to the level they had been.” Future plans for the operation of TruckPol are for different levels of membership and sponsorship, with tiered subscription fees based on the level of information needed. “Some people want the weekly intelligence reports, but many don’t. TruckPol will continue with quarterly and annual reports,” added Rampley.


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