Securi-Guard has added another country to its Securi-Track service, which seeks to combat vehicle thefts and hijacks across Europe. Greece is the latest country.
European Union figures show that the theft by organised criminals of high value, high risk products being transported across Europe costs businesses in excess of 8.6 billion Euros a year.
Securi-Guard reports that it’s working with several major suppliers and providing them with vehicle protection services, which includes some manufacturing brands as well as their logistics and transport providers.
Pete Stanley, Head of Telematics at Securi-Guard, said he was delighted and said talks are ongoing with other European countries to extend the scheme still further in response to client requirements.
“Greece is one of a number of European route destinations which is used by our clients whose vehicles are bring monitored throughout Europe from Securi-Guard’s hi-tech Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC) in Estover, Plymouth so we were very keen to extend our sphere of operation into that country,” said Pete.
Currently, it is commonplace for tracking companies reporting incidents of vehicle theft or hijacking abroad to go through a third party operator, which in turn, alerts authorities in the particular country where the crime has taken place.
Estover-based Securi-Guard’s computer system – developed in Austria – links to security companies in key European countries.
The system means both Securi-Guard and its network of European security specialists are sharing a common computerised management platform that can be updated and reviewed in ‘real time’, speeding up incident investigation and giving clients it’s claimed cost saving, which can also be made available to and viewed by local police authorities dealing with the incident.
Countries already signed up to the scheme are: Republic of Ireland, France, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Italy, Holland, Denmark and the Czech Republic.
