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Enforcement agencies teamed up in East Anglia to stop a law-breaking operator. Chris Tindall reports.
THE RESTRUCTURING of an enforcement group in East Anglia is being praised by its members.
The restructuring of the area's Roads Policing Unit in April led to the formation of a group with representatives from the Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk forces, Vosa and HM Revenue and Customs. The group shares intelligence to target operators compromising road safety or involved in criminal acts.
The group believes this collaboration helped when Paul Oven Container Logistics in King's Lynn was found to be flouting the law. Owner Paul Oven's licence was revoked in January; a Cambridgeshire police spokeswoman says further investigation by the group led to 12 of Oven's vehicles being seized after he continued to operate. Superintendent Mick Gipp, who heads the Road Policing Unit. says: "The multi-agency group was established to create a stronger force in our fight to deny criminals the use of the roads."
Referring to the Oven case, Gipp adds: "This is part of ongoing work to crack down on operators who are a danger to other road users. We will continue to target these companies to make the regions' roads much safer."
Oven was later held to be partly responsible for a bid to get round the licensing regulations by the use of the front company, L&M Distribution (CM 28 September).