[SBE] Copper Theft

[Glenn Williams]

The solution that Larry Bloomfield said worked for his area has been
proposed for Kansas City.  "... the proposed ordinance would have the
recyclers videotape their customers and hold onto some of the scrap metal
for as long as a month."

http://www.kmbc.com/news/15294892/detail.html


Glenn Williams
Chief Engineer
Calvary 88.5 KLJC-FM
15800 Calvary Road
Kansas City, MO 64147
 
816-322-5152  X1371
 
engineer at kljc.org
 
www.calvary885.org
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of Larry
Bloomfield
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 1:17 PM
To: sbe member discussion mail list
Subject: Re: [SBE] Copper Theft

What Rolin says works. Our SBE chapter (76) in Eugene invited our local 
law enforcement folks and the companies that would possibly buy copper 
to one of our meetings and had a very good exchange of information. As a 
result, they set up a similar situation of digital pixs and notification 
to law enforcement etc when anyone tries to sell them copper. Copper 
theft in our area has greatly been reduced and when it does happen, the 
perpetrators are usually nailed.

 

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Rolin Lintag wrote:

> I have not seen it mentioned here yet but just to pitch in the idea that

salvage companies should be part of the solution. Here in our place, we have
contacted all the salvage companies we can think of who will buy scrap
copper and metals for that matter. The local police is notified whenever
there is someone selling copper (DIGITAL PICTURES ARE TAKEN). These salvage
companies also know how a coaxial cable looks lke so they know that only
telecoms/broadcast entities should sell them.

>

> Thieves will have to go out of state to sell their booty.

>

> Another thing that thieves fear is being identified and caught (on tape or

disk) on the act. Security cameras should help and warnings that these are
in use in the facility should be posted (if the thieves know how to read in
the first place).

>   



> <snip>

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