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FOR BRASS READ COPPERS
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FINANCIAL rewards from the RHA for two drivers and two members of the public whose actions resulted in the arrest of thieves, and led to their conviction, were approved at the vehicles security committee meeting on Monday.
In the first case a driver had pressure put on him by intending thieves to leave his vehicle, with £10,000-worth of brass fittings, in a certain place from which it could be stolen. He passed the information on to the police and was told to leave the lorry as instructed. He did so. It was duly driven away to a remote spot. But when the thieves opened it they found it contained— eight police officers.
Six people were arrested, three of them being charged in connection with receiving stolen goods.
The second case involved a McVeigh Transport lorry carrying £5,000-worth of butter and bacon from Grimsby, which was stolen from outside the driver's house in Birmingham. Following a radio news flash, a member of the public recalled seeing the lorry and reported its whereabouts to the police, while a second member of the public was able to help the police find the warehouse containing the stolen goods. From this action, eight convictions resulted, four of them for receiving.
The fourth award recipient was the driver of a vehicle belonging to S. E. Thomas, of Maidstone, which was hijacked. The driver was bound and put in the back of the van. Later at an identity parade he picked out one of the men involved and the police secured a conviction.
Observers, too
The committee also heard that under the quite separate vehicle observer corps award scheme, a total of four people have gained rewards. Two are from the London corps—Mr. L. V. Beadle and Mr. S. Old—and two from the Birmingham group—Mr. D. Overbury and Mr. J. Salisbury.