Thursday, July 26, 2012 Surrey/North Delta Leader 9
New rules target metal thieves by Jeff Nagel
But system to relay information to police not yet in place pounds of copper wire and busted another 35 metal theft suspects last year.
Fordy admitted a planned system for scrap dealers around the province to
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Cunningham said of the new law. NEW B.C. regulations He wouldn’t estimate clamping down on metal how much Telus might theft are now in effect but pare its losses, but said nobody’s predicting the the company would be scourge will be wiped out happy if it could halt the any time soon. steady climb in metal Scrap metal buyers theft incidents. now must keep a daily Everything from log of their purchases phone and power lines and suppliers, who have to phone booths and to provide identification, manhole covers get be registered and can dragged in to metal only be paid by cheque salvagers, mainly by for amounts over $50. prolific offenders in The Metal Dealers search of drug money. and Recyclers Act aims Provincial inspectors to plug gaps in the will also do periodic spot patchwork of different checks of the more than municipal bylaws drawn 120 scrap metal dealers up by cities to try to in B.C. to ensure they combat wire theft. register and comply with “Hopefully we’ve the rules. landed at a place where Violators face fines we have something that of up to $100,000 and will work effectively,” said possible jail time. provincial spokesman The regulations cover and Chilliwack MLA not just wire – the John Les, adding main target of the government thieves – but will consider other specific further changes metal objects if necessary. like traffic lights, “There are signs, sewer some awfully grates and metal wily people grave markers. out there who The new are sometimes law was a long John Les pretty clever in time coming figuring out the – municipalities work arounds.” and utilities had been While bylaws lobbying for action since have helped reduce at least 2006. unscrupulous salvage Questions abound metal buying in a dozen over how much use Lower Mainland cities, police will be able to wire and other objects make of the information are still pilfered in those collected by buyers to areas and then resold pursue suspected thieves. where no bylaws exist. Dealers are supposed Despite having a to relay the information bylaw, the City of Surrey on what they buy daily alone incurred nearly $3 and police can compare million in losses last year that to reports of stolen and media stings have items and then get a found spotty compliance court order for more among local dealers. information as needed. Telus pegs its losses Surrey RCMP Supt. to metal thieves at Bill Fordy said greater $16 million last year dealer accountability will – resulting in phone give police more scope to service outages that left investigate. customers unable to use “If we see a pattern of 911 in emergencies – and persons bringing in items the firm is averaging an to a certain contact, it incident each day so far gives us a point to initiate this year. an investigation and we “We hope it will be can go from there,” Fordy a turning point in the said. battle against metal Surrey RCMP recently theft in B.C.,” Telus arrested a pair of prolific Vice-President Dave offenders with 700