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Public Sector: Powys County Council cracks down on crime
The Council is a Welsh Unitary Authority responsible for all local government services in the county, including education, social care services, roads and bridges, leisure services, tourism and planning. It employs around 8,000 staff working in many locations across the county in a wide variety of roles. The Council has a huge impact on the local economy, both by being its largest employer and by spending more than half of its £300 million turnover within the county's boundaries.
Powys is an extensive, largely upland and extremely rural county covering 2000 square miles – about a quarter of the area of Wales. With only one person in every ten acres it is one of the most sparsely populated local authority areas in England and Wales.
Being such a large county, the depots used to store vehicles and equipment are often in relatively isolated locations and, although crime is reasonably low in the area, this left them vulnerable to break-in and theft. A spate of recent incidents at the depots involving vehicles, tools and fuel suggested that these weren’t just the actions of opportunists, but rather those of organised criminals. Clearly, a security solution was required.
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