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But the National Plant and Equipment Register (known as TER) warns that with the 2012 Olympics construction phase underway, equipment owning companies need to keep up the fight. A massive 95 per cent of stolen equipment is never recovered.
“Although this is a significant drop, plant theft is still a widespread serious organised criminal activity, often directly linked to the funding of terrorist groups,” warns TER’s Tim Purbrick. Evidence directly links equipment theft to the funding of terrorist groups. Experts fear stolen equipment could be used as a Trojan horse either to smuggle illicit property, such as weapons or drugs into the UK, or to hide an explosive device.
“Undoubtedly, the great weight of media coverage of equipment theft has created an awareness that has been acted upon,” said Purbrick.
“A number of manufacturers are fitting security devices in their factories, plant hire companies could be seeking after-market security devices and maybe equipment users are taking more care with site security.”
The 2007 Equipment Theft Report shows that last year:
More than 3,500 higher value equipment items were stolen
Excavators were the highest value category of stolen equipment with 793 excavators valued at GB pound 11.8m reported as stolen.
Trailers are the most commonly stolen item
The next most commonly stolen types were quad bikes, dumpers, rollers and breakers.
There were significant drops in thefts of compressors, generators, dumpers and fork lift trucks.
Tractor theft has remained static.
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