British Business Parks has helped a Cannock firm beat the vandals by part-paying for crime-busting CCTV cameras to be installed at the premises.

BBP offered to help Norton Aluminium Ltd, of Norton Canes, after Cannock police’s crime reduction officer suggested the cameras would be the best way to monitor the company’s site.

The company also proposed an outdoor storage building to protect their bins of scrap metal and to keep the material dry. The building would utilise an area of derelict land at the rear of the premises.

The new building will create 8,000 square feet of floorspace and will improve seven acres of derelict land.

The cost of the project was almost £60,000 but BBP, keen to safeguard the firm’s 52 employees, agreed to fund a third of the work through a business grant of £19,084.

Henry Dickinson, the company’s managing director, said his firm had been delighted with the help it had received from BBP.

“The grant has enabled us to buy a much more sophisticated system than would otherwise have been the case, including six remotely controllable, continuously recorded, remotely monitored, digital cameras.

“Since the installation of the system our site has been free of burglaries and we are confident that all intruders will now be detected as soon as they enter the site and appropriate action can be taken to apprehend them.

“I would like to take this opportunity to thank British Business Parks for its help in making this happen,” he said.

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