Hitachi works with police to tackle crime
Hitachi Construction Machinery UK in partnership with The Combined Industry Theft Solutions (CITS) group and the police recently hosted a successful police training event at its new production facility in the North East of England.
On November 22nd, CITS in conjunction Hitachi, hosted a special police training event for 60 officers from five regional force areas including Northumbria, Cleveland, North Yorkshire, Durham and Police Scotland constabularies. The officers attended a full day's training, which was delivered by both specialist police training officers and industry experts including DC Chris Piggott, of The National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service (NaVcis) and Police Liaison officer Peter Wilson from CESAR, to learn about the current threats around Construction and Agricultural machinery theft.
The event offered practical tips on how to identify stolen plant, which included demonstrations on machinery identification. CITS chairman Ian Elliott, the Head of Security for Clancy opened the event, alongside Seumas Ascott, Head of Security for J. Murphy representing the industry, whilst Superintendent Andrew Huddleston of Northumbria Police highlighted the need for working in Partnership to tackle crime.
David Roberts, CEO of Hitachi Construction Machinery UK welcomed the officers to the Hitachi facilities and the special conference facility which was set up specifically for the training day, within an impressive warehouse. The event was also supported by the Home Office industry schemes, Cesar and MicroCesar, both identification marking systems used by police to easily identify ownership of plant and machinery used on both farms and construction sites alike.
CITS, an industry forum comprising of representatives from the Home Office, Police, Insurers and Industry have run a series of training events throughout 2022, and plan to host a further series of events in 2023.
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