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Operation Tremor was a joint operation between British Transport Police, Lancashire Constabulary and
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to combat thieves who had been stealing copper boilers, cables and piping from train tracks, which could disable signalling equipment and safety devices. Some of the wire was used to carry information for automatic signalling and safety equipment.Operational Police officers The police circulated pictures of known thieves to scrap metal merchants and taxi drivers after a dramatic rise in thefts from railway property and homes. Part of the blame was put on the rise in price of copper which had tripled in the three years leading to 2006. Equipment used in targeting offenders included
CCTV Closed-circuit television (CCTV), also known as video surveillance, is the use of closed-circuit television cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place on a limited set of monitors. It differs from broadcast television in that the signa ...
and Automatic number-plate recognition ( ANPR).


See also

* British Transport Police * Route Crime


External links


British Transport Police

British Transport Police Special Constabulary website

BBC Crimefighters: British Transport Police


References

* {{cite web , url=http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1066359.mostviewed.police_hope_to_cop_metal_thiefs.php , title=Police hope to ‘cop’ metal thiefs , author=Charlotte Bradshaw , date=2006-12-09 , publisher=Lancashire Telegraph , accessdate=2006-12-21 British Transport Police Metal theft
Tremor A tremor is an involuntary, somewhat rhythmic muscle contraction and relaxation involving neural oscillations, oscillations or twitching movements of one or more body parts. It is the most common of all involuntary movements and can affect the h ...