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Pulling the
plug on metal
thieves
Crimestoppers and Northern
Powergrid have joined forces to
launch a campaign to highlight the
misery and disruption metal thieves
can cause for local communities
and businesses when they steal
from the electricity network.
»»The campaign,
launched in April, follows
a number of incidents last
year which caused power
disruption for close to 37,000
local people in West Yorkshire
and Stockton-on-Tees.
In 2014 there were 566
case of metal theft from
Northern Powergrid’s
electricity network across
the North East, Yorkshire
and northern Lincolnshire.
Castleford (West Yorkshire)
and Norton (Stockton-onTees) had a collective total
of 83 reported metal theft
incidents, which makes up
some 14 per cent of all thefts
from Northern Powergrid’s
network that year.
The aim is to engage
with these communities to
highlight the impact of this
crime, and through online
channels such as Facebook,
Twitter and LinkedIn, appeal
for anonymous information
from local people about the
criminals who are targeting
their community.
The campaign, which will
run across a 25 mile radius
of both communities, also
aims to increase awareness
in neighbouring towns and
villages of how metal theft can
disrupt the power network that
delivers electricity to people’s
door and urge communities to
be extra vigilant.
Dave Hunter,
Crimestoppers Regional
Manager, said: “Alongside
Northern Powergrid we are
determined to communicate
the dangers and disruption
caused by theft from the
electricity network and help
bring down the thieves
responsible for these crimes.
“The mass disruption for
all affected, be it businesses,
communities or households,
and the effect this is having
on local industry, cannot
continue. We need members
of the public to shed some
light on who is responsible for
these crimes where they have
any information, so that we
can prevent you from being
left in the dark. We don’t want
to know who you are, we
only want to know what you
know.”
If you have any information
on a metal theft incident then
please contact Crimestoppers
anonymously on 0800
555 111 or through our
Anonymous Online Form at
www.crimestoppers-uk.org
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