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Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what advice her Department has issued to police forces on working with the UK Border Force in preventing the export of stolen scrap metal.


Answered by
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Norman Baker
This question was answered on 13th May 2014

The Home Office has not issued guidance on this point to police forces.
However, work is underway in UK Border Force and other law enforcement
organisations to tackle this problem, including the better profiling and
identification of containers that may contain stolen metal. They are also
looking at whether there are technological solutions that can be used to better
secure our borders.

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