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Operation Crucible
Operation Crucible is a police-led, multi-agency investigation into the organised theft and unlawful trade of metal in England and Wales. Agencies Involved agencies include: *British Transport Police *Metropolitan Police *Hertfordshire Constabulary *Norfolk Constabulary *Suffolk Constabulary *Northamptonshire Police *Leicestershire Police *Essex Police *Cambridgeshire Constabulary *UK Border Agency *Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs *Trading Standards *Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England See also *Operation Icarus - Police investigation into the organised theft and black market trade of religious and church artefacts in England and Wales References External links *{{cite web, title=British Transport Police: The fight against thieves targeting cultural heritage, work=YouTube, url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pu3rjzbLXM, date=9 September 2016, accessdate=10 September 2016, id= Chief Constable Paul Crowther, the National Police Chiefs' Council Lead for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Day 56 - West Midlands Police Tackling Metal Theft
A day is the time period of a full rotation of the Earth with respect to the Sun. On average, this is 24 hours, 1440 minutes, or 86,400 seconds. In everyday life, the word "day" often refers to a solar day, which is the length between two solar noons or times the Sun reaches the highest point. The word "day" may also refer to ''daytime'', a time period when the location receives direct and indirect sunlight. On Earth, as a location passes through its day, it experiences morning, noon, afternoon, evening, and night. The effect of a day is vital to many life processes, which is called the circadian rhythm. A collection of sequential days is organized into calendars as dates, almost always into weeks, months and years. Most calendars' arrangement of dates use either or both the Sun with its four seasons (solar calendar) or the Moon's phasing (lunar calendar). The start of a day is commonly accepted as roughly the time of the middle of the night or midnight, written as 00:00 or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trading Standards
Trading Standards are the local authority departments with the United Kingdom, formerly known as ''Weights and Measures'', that enforce consumer protection legislation. Sometimes, the Trading Standards enforcement functions of a local authority are performed by part of a larger department which enforces a wide range of other legislation: environmental health, health and safety, licensing and so on. These departments investigate commercial organisations that trade outside the law or in unethical ways. They attempt to remedy breaches by advice or by formal enforcement action. Trading Standards services also offer Primary Authority Partnerships whereby a business can form a legal partnership with a regulator in order to obtain assured advice and support with compliance. History They were originally labelled as Weights and Measures Departments because their primary function was to maintain the integrity of commercial weighing and measuring by routine testing of equipment and goods. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
