Hauliers to help on theft
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• Transport operators are be quizzed by the Home Office to get hard facts on truck crime and clues on how to fight it.
The Home Office's industrywide survey comes following an initiative agreed by the Joint Action Group on Organised Truck Theft chaired by the Metropolitan Police.
A first draft of a questionnaire has been prepared following a meeting earlier this month of the group, which represents the transport associations, insurers, manufacturers and others. "A database has got to be built to fill the gap in crime statistics," says RHA security controller Graham Houghton.
The RHA will be pressing for the widest possible circulation
of the questionnaire in the industry.
The first draft contains nearly 40 questions on subjects including attempted theft and the fitting of security devices.