111 An Initiative to cut truck crime around the port
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of Felixstowe has secured its first success, with the biggest local landowner agreeing to invest in CCTV. The system will be installed on the 150-acre D'Inity 2000 industrial estate and may eventually be linked with cameras guarding warehouses and haulage yards elsewhere in the area.
Neil Critchley, a consultant to estate owner Trinity College of Cambridge, says: "We recognise the need for something to be done, CCTV will give evidence that leads to prosecutions and will be of much wider deterrent value than security guards and patrols."
Crttchley sits on the local supply chain security group, which was set up last year because Felixstowe has the highest level of container theft in the country.
"This is the first tangible sign that something is happening apart from talking," he says. "The ideal situation would be to share monitoring costs with other CCTV schemes."
Suffolk Police, which also sits on the security group, expects to complete a review of security levels on 30 haulage yards around the port by the end of September (CM 12-18 June).