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  • British Railway cable thieves sentencedFour men from Nuneaton have been sentenced to a total of more than ten years in prison for stealing electrical cable from railway lines. Dominic Wallis, Flame Redshaw, George Brunozzi-Jones and John Gowland, all from Nuneaton, committed a total of thirty thefts from tracks around the town between 2010 and 2011. Go to news story:  more...
  • SmartWater slashes Tipton metal theftsA council-funded drive to make SmartWater available across a West Midlands town has slashed instances of metal theft by 60%. Sandwell Council provided its local police with funding to invest in SmartWater kits for residents of Tipton, in a drive to deter criminals who had been helping themselves to metal from across the neighbourhood. Officers  more...
  • Danish film crew records SmartWater crime preventionA DANISH film crew has joined police and council officers at Shaw Croft to record a SmartWater crime prevention exercise. The crew, from Danish national station TV2, traveled to Ashbourne for just a day to find out more about SmartWater, a property labelling device which is not yet available in Denmark. Police and council officers  more...