Police recover UK’s largest haul of stolen tools

A building agency reported that top‑worth tools had been stolen from a web site in Tilbury, Essex.

Utilizing a monitoring system fitted to the tools, Met officers had been capable of hint the stolen items to a property in Ilford final week.

Native officers gained entry and found the tools, in addition to an enormous amount of stolen instruments and equipment, with an estimated worth of round £2m.

Two suspects had been arrested on the scene, with a 3rd suspect recognized and arrested at one other tackle with extra stolen instruments and tools had been found.

The suspects are considered a part of an organised prison group concerned in reselling stolen gadgets on-line and delivery them throughout the UK and Europe.

Inspector Mark Connolly, from the Met’s native policing group in east London, stated: “Too many tradespeople are being put out of labor and out of pocket by organised instrument thieves. Operations like this present that the Met is taking motion to guard tradespeople and their livelihoods.

“This is among the largest recoveries of stolen instruments we’ve ever made, and it sends a transparent message that we are going to determine offenders and convey them to justice.

“Our groups are working with companions throughout building, retail and logistics to disrupt the organised networks that revenue from these offences, and to return stolen instruments to their rightful house owners.

“Our message to tradespeople is to mark your gadgets with artificial DNA to make it simpler to forensically hyperlink gadgets and register the serial quantity with the producer and the UK Nationwide Property Register.”

The recovered instruments — amounting to 10 lorry masses — have now been transferred to a safe police premises, the place officers are working to determine the gadgets and hint their rightful house owners. A few of the tools is believed to be linked to thefts relationship again so far as 2019.