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Police call for more powers to tackle metal thefts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11616870
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British Transport Police are calling for tougher powers to tackle the growing problem of metal theft.
There have been more than 5,000 such thefts from the railways and the gas and electricity networks this year.
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The last two years have seen the price of refined copper more than double.
At the end of 2008 it was selling it at a low of less than £2,000 a tonne, but by earlier this month it had reached more than £5,000.
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It's the damage that they cause to the community in general that annoys me the most.It seems odd to me that they haven't done more before this to chase/target the dodgy scrap dealers.Simple things like CCTV and the use of photo ID would appear to be obvious to me..
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