Hi-tech move on thefts
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• Anti-truck theft checkpoints will be dotted around the country within two months as part of a joint venture between the police and private enterprise.
Devices for tracking stolen vehicles installed at the ports of Dover and Holyhead will be followed by units at all other UK ports and other "gates" on police-manned sections of roads.
The system works when stolen commercial vehicles and cars fitted with the Tracker transmitter give off a signal to police cars equipped with receiv ing equipment. US-based Lojack Corporation, which has marketed the system in the States for seven years, is paying for the installation of tracking computers in cars throughout all 51 police forces and at tilt.' fixed sites.
Leyland Daf last week announced that it will be offering its customers the Tracker system as an option for £375 (ex-VAT) per vehicle. It claims this is the first system where the driver is not aware that the system is on board.