Police and retailers welcome anti-fuel theft app
A new online app is helping police forces and gas station operators tackle fuel theft by sharing information and images on a platform, reported Security News Desk.
Strained by a shrinking budget, Britain´s police forces have welcomed the app 'Forecourt Eye', a technology which allows retailers to instantly send digital evidence (footage and information) to police systems.
The app also creates an intelligent database which generates statistics and allows the tracking of repeat offenders. With most of the forecourt crime perpetrators, in this case fuel theft in the form of drive-off or “no means of payments”, being repeat offenders, the new system proves very useful to gas station operators.
“Forecourt Eye has helped us reduce both drive offs and share information with other retailers to track suspects operating in our area,” said Farook Asmal of BP Linden Service Station, the first to use the system.
Fuel theft is a huge issue for retailers which CCTV helped to reduce, but has not stopped. During 2014 British operators lost £31.4 million due to this issue, according to a survey by the British Oil Security Syndicate.
