Pikey thieves need ID now

I tried that. I was trying to get onto a secure site to do some specialised work. They wanted two forms of photo ID issued "by official bodies". Basically, that was driving licence & passport. I tried my bus pass, but that's only issued by the council so it doesn't count. I tried my Amateur Radio licence,but it doesn't have a photograph. Solved it in the end, but it was difficult. They needed me in particular so that eased things a little!

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mick
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You could carry out those now... its seems more like a lack of will than actual capability.

Reply to
John Rumm

Carry out what? There is no crime buying scrap. Are you suggesting they go and try to sell scrap and tell the scrap yard owner it is stolen to see what he does?

Reply to
dennis

There is, if you're not registered or they're under 16

Scrap Metal Dealers Act 1964

"Every local authority shall maintain a register of persons carrying on business in their area as scrap metal dealers; and, after the expiration of three months beginning with the commencement of this Act, no person shall carry on business as a scrap metal dealer in the area of a local authority unless the appropriate particulars relating to him are for the time being entered in the register maintained by the authority under this section." ..

"If a scrap metal dealer acquires any scrap metal from a person apparently under the age of sixteen years, whether the scrap metal is offered by that person on his own behalf or on behalf of another person, he shall be guilty of an offence"

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list of repeals includes the Old Metal Dealers Act 1861 so this trade has obviously been a cause of legislative concern for a long time.

Reply to
Tony Bryer

Sting operations on the scrap yards...

There is if its obviously stolen...

Journalists did that just recently:

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"Secret filming

An employee of Lowes Metals of Grays, Essex, who referred to himself as Bubsy, looked at the BT cable and told an undercover researcher: "You can't touch BT, they'll lock us up straight away."

He instructed the researcher to "burn the rubber off, stretch the copper off".

Bubsy added: "The BT stuff is like doing a bank today."

The next day, after researchers followed his instructions, Bubsy purchased the cable.

"He's identified it as BT cable," said Det Sgt Chris Hearne from BTP."

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John Rumm

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