Cardboard cops aim to cut out crime.Summary: Police have launched the latest weapon in the fight against crime - cardboard Cardboard is a generic non-specific term for a heavy duty paper based product. Paperboard
Paperboard is a paper based material. It is often used for folding cartons, set-up boxes, carded packaging, etc. constables. Police have launched the latest weapon in the fight against crime - cardboard constables. Officers in Cleveland Cleveland, former county, England Cleveland, former county, NE England, created under the Local Government Act of 1972 (effective 1974). It was composed of the county boroughs of Hartlepool and Teeside and parts of the former counties of Durham and , Teesside, unveiled the unlikely new recruits after pickpockets went on a robbery robbery, in law, felonious taking of property from a person against his will by threatening or committing force or violence. The injury or threat may be directed against the person robbed, his property, or the person or property of his relative or of anyone in his spree in the area, targeting elderly victims. The cardboard cut-outs are deployed in local shops to help deter raiders. Sergeant Derek Knight, the officer in charge of the cut-outs, said: "It's working. "Over the last three weekends we've had significant thefts in the Redcar area of purses. "We tried this on Saturday just gone and on that weeked there were no thefts whatsoever." Independent Television News Limited 2009. All rights reserved. Independent Television News Limited 2009. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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