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Crime wave sees 40 GPS kits ripped from tractors

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Crime wave sees 40 GPS kits ripped from tractors

Date of alert:

Tuesday, 21 September 2021

Crime Ref:

Force:

Hertfordshire Constabulary

Thieves have stolen 40 GPS tractor kits from farms across East Anglia and Hertfordshire in an organised crime wave estimated to have cost farmers about £500,000.
Thefts of high-tech global positioning system (GPS) equipment were reported on 7 September in Norfolk, Suffolk and neighbouring Hertfordshire.

Norfolk-based farm manager Andrew Francis, who runs the 9,100-hectare Elveden estate, raised the alarm on social media after he was targeted.

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