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Article: Police blitz on sat nav thefts; CRIME: Poster crusade urges dozy drivers to beat raiders REMOVE IT OR LOSS IT.(News)
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- Birmingham Mail (England)
- Article date:
- September 6, 2006
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Byline: By Mark Cowan CRIME CORRESPONDENT
SAT nav thieves are hitting 10 dozy drivers a day in the West Midlands in a crime craze that has already cost motorists a whopping pounds 800,000.
Police have seen a 309 per cent rise in thefts over the last ten months and there are fears the fad for the mapping devices could fuel a rise in crime figures.
The increasing trend in thefts of the latest must-have gizmo mirrors that of mobile phones and i-Pods, blamed for sparking a rise in street muggings.
Now police are to launch a major advertising campaign, branded "Sat Nabbed?", to put the brakes on the alarming number of machines being stolen ...