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Quick adion on truck crime squad
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A NATIONAL police squad exclusively dedicated to fighting truck crime could be operational by early next year.
The squad is the brainchild of Bob Quick, chairman of the Joint Action Group on Lorry Theft (JAGOLT); he estimates it would cost at least £1.5m-a-year to run.
"The Home Office has expressed a lot of sympathy for the idea and I am putting an urgent business case together to set it up," he says.
Quick. who is also Chief Constable of Surrey Police, says the unit's role would be to co-ordinate activities across police forces against organised criminals as well as making better use of intelligence.
"I think regional responses are good and very important," he adds,"but we must recognise that these gangs are operating A Quick: Urge on a national basis."
He adds that the creation of the unit fits in with a sea change in the way police deal with regional and national crime, with increasing emphasis being placed on co-ordinating investigations across forces.
The squad is most likely to be based at the Metropolitan Police, alongside TruckPol, which collates and analyses road freight crime across the UK.
nt case "I will try to negotiate as many resources from the police service and Home Office," Quick concludes. "But if the industry can sponsor a post then it is all power to our eftx)w."