{"id":11697,"date":"2012-10-30T11:42:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T11:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=11697"},"modified":"2012-10-30T11:42:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T11:42:47","slug":"wales-spends-820000-on-metal-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2012\/10\/30\/wales-spends-820000-on-metal-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales spends \u00a3820,000 on metal theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/metal2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11991\" title=\"metal2\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/metal2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/metal2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/metal2-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11991\" title=\"metal2\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/metal2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/metal2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/10\/metal2-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While police were preoccupied and the community concerned, opportunist metal thieves were busy stealing fencing from Ely recreational gardens.<\/p>\n<p>This is another case of metal theft to hit Cardiff, a crime costing councils in Wales at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-19515594\">\u00a3820,000 in 2011\/12<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In light of this, local metal companies are hardening up their policies through Operation Tornado.\u00a0 Neil O\u2019Sullivan from Cardiff Metal Buyers Limited explains the UK wide scheme, &#8220;We don\u2019t take metal from anyone unless they have an ID with a photo, or a passport and utility bill.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you get a suspicious character come in, like a 17 year old kid with a trolley full of lead saying &#8216;My dad gave it to me&#8217;, I\u2019ll say, &#8216;Get your dad to come here and bring his ID&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 While police were preoccupied and the community concerned, opportunist metal thieves were busy stealing fencing from Ely recreational gardens. This is another case of metal theft to hit Cardiff, a crime costing councils in Wales at least \u00a3820,000 in 2011\/12. In light of this, local metal companies are hardening up their policies through Operation Tornado.\u00a0 Neil O\u2019Sullivan from Cardiff Metal Buyers Limited explains the UK wide scheme, &#8220;We don\u2019t take metal from anyone unless they have an ID with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":11992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2233,35,1987,2234,1454,1707,1714],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-no-logo","tag-cardiff-metal-buyers-limited","tag-council","tag-ely","tag-karina-menzies","tag-metal","tag-metal-theft","tag-theft"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wales spends \u00a3820,000 on metal theft - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2012\/10\/30\/wales-spends-820000-on-metal-theft\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wales spends \u00a3820,000 on metal theft - alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0 While police were preoccupied and the community concerned, opportunist metal thieves were busy stealing fencing from Ely recreational gardens. 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