A neighbourhood watch team who have been helping vehicle owners to prevent their number plates from being stolen. The scheme has been named “Screw it of Lose it” offers special screws which secure the vehicles number plates, to prevent theft.
In celebration of the huge amount of work that the neighbourhood watch teams have been doing the West Yorkshire Police are launching the 2008 Neighbourhood Watch Awards, these awards will recognise the 150,000 who part of the scheme.
Susan Horsman, chair of the Dewsbury Division Neighbourhood Watch Association, said they were very pleased to be launching a new activity in their area.
“All of us in Neighbourhood Watch are keen to help the police in any way we can to drive down crime.
“We hope that this initiative will not only reduce crime but also raise people’s awareness of Neighbourhood Watch.”
“It works as you find that when a group sets up it is because local people want to do something in terms of crime prevention.
“We got our own watch together in Heathfield in 1998 and we are quite active socially. I would guess that ours is typical of many in the sense that we do keep people in touch with what is going on,”
The Dewsbury team have been working hard by setting up in car parks where drivers can find out more about protecting their number plates with the special screws.
Inspector Ian Gayles of the Dewsbury Neighbourhood Policing Team said: “We work very closely with the Dewsbury Neighbourhood Watch Association and met recently to discuss how we can continue to work together.
“The Dewsbury Neighbourhood Policing Team support them in various initiatives as they are a vital cog in our crime reduction efforts and are an important channel in sending out key messages to the community.
“I would congratulate them for their recent campaign on the prevention of number plate theft and for their dedication in making Dewsbury a safer place to live. The nomination alone speaks for itself.”
The theft of number plates from vehicles is a growing concern, as these stolen number plates can then be used by thieves to steal fuel from filling stations where they have CCTV capturing all of the number plates of vehicles that come in to fill up.
Source [West Yorkshire Police]
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