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WEST MIDLANDS POLICE are reviewing the future of their anti-truck crime unit less than a year after it was launched.
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Operation Indicate has proved highly successful in reducing truck theft in the region. which last year suffered the highest rates in the country outside London. The review will raise fears that Indicate is lobe axed as happened to a similar regional initiative, Operation Coppergold, two years ago.
But Superintendent Andy Bebbington, head of Indicate, denies this option is being considered: "Senior officers within this force are very cognisant of what happened with Coppergold... They want something that can be retained over a number of years rather than be a flash in the pan like Coppergold."
Bebbington earlier provoked outrage after suggesting hauliers might be asked to contribute to Indicate's £200.000-a-year running costs (CM 20 January).
TruckPol, the national truck crime intelligence unit, reports that 9% of the 2,236 HGVs reported stolen last year were from the West Midlands police area.