Police wage war on scrap metal thieves (From Daily Echo)

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  ToastyTea wrote:
  

  bigfella777 wrote:
  Why do they need to wage war when they could simply go to the metal dealers once a week, stand on the weighbridge and see what's being brought in, it cant be that hard.

  I don't know how it works but surely the scrap dealers will just not clarify stuff they suspect/or know is stolen.

  Had the lead nicked from my roof last year in the early hours after the Royal Wedding day. Asbestos is in that roof, hope they caught some of it. They even came back 3 weeks later to my estate but were disturbed, Police arrived and they sped off leaving strips of lead everywhere. I asked the Policeman investigating how they were doing ? He replied they were doing ok but there wasn't enough of them. There is even less now so God knows who we could put on duty at Scrap Yards. Most scrap yards are well run, those committing these crimes know the ones who aren't. That is who we should be targetting, the Police will always have a good idea who they are"
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