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Black Country truck crime falls after Indicate launch
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According to the latest figures the police really can make a difference to truck crime when they put their minds to it. Jennifer Ball reports.
TRUCK CRIME IN the Black Country has fallen 41% since last year's launch of the West Midlands police specialised truck crime unit, Operation Indicate.
There were a total of 117 incidents between January and May of 2005, compared with 199 incidents in the same period last year. The value of goods stolen fell from £8.4m to am.
But at the recent West Midlands police crime conference, DCI Carl Foulkes from Operation Indicate said more needs to be done: "We still need to raise awareness of the devastating effect that truck crime has on the industry.
"It often doesn't come high on the policing agenda as it accounts for just 0.74% of vehicle crime but the cost impact is far greater at f12m.We have expanded our links with four police forces in the region and with the launch of Promptext, our message system enabling hauliers to receive crime updates, we will be able to continue to catch these criminals."
• TruckPol is to meet with the Department for Transport to urge it to introduce trailer registrations in a bid to cut truck crime.
DC Mark Gainers says this would go a long way to help them identify stolen units: "We think trailer registration would he a useful tool as it would enable us to record details of stolen trailers on the police national computer and identify them by their number rather than by make."