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The Plant Theft Action Group plans for most machines in the UK to be registered by 2010 in order to




By Darren Wise

All plant could be registered by 2010 if a plan put forward by the Plant Theft Action Group (PTAG) is accepted by the Home Office, which is likely. The Home Office and police are increasingly concerned about the theft of Plant machinery in the build up to the 2012 Olympic Games in Britain.


Machines used on sites connected with the Olympic Games will have to be registered with a central database and carry stickers showing their identity number. Police will then be able to quickly search for a complete record of the machines details, 24 hours a day. People can also check with the directory that they are not buying stolen goods.


It is hoped that the scheme is widely adopted and a specialist Police plant theft unit is to be set up to target organised criminals. As with most specialist units, the unit will eventually be funded by confiscated money and property from those convicted.


A central database is to be created by a data handling company, which will issue a unique plant identification number for each piece of plant registered and hold details of the machine, the owner and their contact details. Plant machinery will be divided into 6 categories A-F. Category A 'Large tracked and wheeled machines greater than six tonnes and Category B 'Small driven equipment less than six tonnes' will require six separate markings. Whilst all other plant including 'non- driven equipment' and 'attachments' will require two markings.


DC Mark Galliers from the Metropolitan Police's TruckPol unit has been working with the plant theft action group. He explained:

"This number will be displayed on each machine on A4-sized tamper-proof stickers, as well as being painted on the roof and we will be able to check the number on a piece of plant at any time."


He would like to see the scheme adopted across the industry, and it seems very likely that insurance companies will soon insist on plant being registered as a condition of cover.


Details of plant that can be registered with the DVLA off-road register will automatically be forwarded and the owner issued with a transferable V5 registration document.


Galliers wants the scheme to go live in January 2007 for new machines, with owners having three years to register older plant, meaning that by 2010 all self-propelled and towed plant will be registered.


The cost per machine is yet to be calculated, but could be offset by reduced insurance premiums. Along with this scheme the PTAG also has issued guidelines on Keys, Perimeter Security and Immobilisers to further protect Plant machinery from theft.

 
 
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Darren Wise is co founder of www.plantresale.com a free classifieds site for the plant industry.

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