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Under a new initiative scrap dealers are partnering with police and other organisations to cap the rising tide of metal theft. The new code of practice will make tracing stolen metal much easier. The onus is on the dealer to do a number of things. These include: Maintaining CCTV while the business is open; and keeping records of any vehicles used to transport the metal and the material itself.
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Seven top of the range digital cameras now surround a historic building because of repeated thefts. Lead downpiping is just some of the metal that has been stolen from the Roman Catholic cathedral in Norwich. Estates manager Rev Patrick Limacher said it was a “sad state of affairs” more cathedrals were being affected. Mr Limacher added: “Thefts from Catholic churches have been a particular problem and in one case a tabernacle was stolen.”
Police have released CCTV images of a robber who is believed to have carried out raids at a dozen businesses. Detectives have been analysing surveillance camera footage from all the incidents, the latest of which was at 10pm on Monday (March 12) at a Co-op store in Northamptonshire. The suspect is a slim black man in his 20s, who is 5ft 6in to 5ft 8in tall.
Another bizarre incident related to a Premiership footballer demonstrated the role of CCTV. Mario Balotelli was asked to exit Manchester’s Trafford Centre after refusing to pull down the hood of his top. Staff confirmed Manchester City’s forward was approached by security personnel on Monday and told he would be ejected if he did not comply. The Trafford Centre explained its policy of asking customers to remove hoods enabled security staff to track their movements of known offenders on CCTV.
CCTV pictures showed a 24-year-old man terrorising a pub holding a chainsaw after he was thrown out of the establishment for flouting the smoking ban. Dean Dinnen had been ejected from the bar in Hull shortly beforehand. He returned with the petrol-powered tool which he started up in front of the horrified customers. Punters managed to restrain him before armed police arrived to arrest him. Dinnen has since been jailed for three years.
A “pack of lies”: that is how a judge described in court a man’s made-up story about a mugging that was proved wrong by CCTV cameras. Teesside man Alex Jones was helping his wife, who was a cash collector, but lost a bag of money. He used the robbery ruse to hide this error, but CCTV checks on the scene of the ‘crime’ showed no robbery, and Jones was later arrested for perverting the course of justice.
A CCTV security tap was stolen during a run of robberies committed on businesses over the past month. Cash and the tap were taken from a takeaway restaurant as similar premises were targeted in the Midlands. Police believe the series of attacks could be the work of one man, and have released an E-fit image of the suspected offender. Two hairdressers were among the other businesses which have been hit. In all the cases cash was stolen.
Detectives are urging people who recognise a pair of men on CCTV images of a store attack to identify them. Both of the men are white and in their early 20s. The first may be easier to identify as he wore a checked trapper hat. Lothian and Borders Police appealed for information about the Edinburgh assault, saying: “The CCTV images show both men within the Scotmid store, and we are appealing to anyone who recognises them to come forward.”
A homeless man used fancy dress to commit a series of armed raids. Robber Martin Reilly admitted raiding bookmakers up and down the UK using unusual dress, including an Elvis Presley outfit. Reilly, who has been remanded in custody, admitted 15 of the 20 charges but denied the raids in Kettering on June 13, Bedford on June 17 and an attempted robbery in Eastbourne on July 17 last year.