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Police restructuring will help fight truck crime
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MORE RESOURCES are to be pumped into Operation Indicate, the West Midlands Police truckcrime unit.
The operation was set up two years ago; until now it has been run by a team of three with only one police officer
solely dedicated to the project.
But Police Constable Andy Round says that West Midlands Police restructuring has put Operation Indicate under the auspices of the region's Inquisitive Crme Unit.
The unit covers anything
from robberies to large-scale vehicle crime," Round explains. "We can now task more officers to perform the arrests and develop intelligence."
Round says the restructuring came out of a realisation that many of the criminals involved in truck crime were also committing other offences such as robberies from buildings, which were being handled by other units within the West Midlands force.
Now all these teams will work together and share intelligence on the same criminals.