PCCs to fund TruckPol By Derren Hayes POLICE AND CRIME
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Commissioners (PCC) could help fund TruckPol, the soon-to-be resurrected specialist freight crime initiative, transport minister Simon Burns said.
In evidence given to the Transport Select Committee about TruckPol's funding, Burns told1VIPs: "It would be up to any PCC who might wish to spend money from their budgets to take part in TruckPol to do so if they wanted to."
The committee's Land Transport Security inquiry questioned the minister after hearing evidence from the Road Haulage Association (RHA) and Freight Transport Association (FTA) about how the withdrawal of government funding for TruckPol resulted in its closure in March 2012.
The committee recommended that government should acknowledge the importance of TruckPol's work and that it needed to engage with the industry to ensure the successor system — which is being developed by the National Business Crime Intelligence Bureau (CM 21 March) in conjunction with the RHA — is fit for purpose.
FTA fleet information manager Don Armour said freight crime needed to be on PCC's shopping lists. "They need to be involved. They were going to take a fresh look at things and I don't see why they shouldn't do that with freight crime."