ANALYSIS of British Transport Police's crime statistics for 2016/17 (published in August) indicate that cable theft is still causing major delays to the rail network, despite a drop in reported incidents. A study of the data by VPS Site Security shows that cable theft is still occurring five times a week. The BTP Authority, which oversees the transport police force, also records that the subsequent delays and disruptions to passengers was 23,670 minutes. This is half the previous year's total delay, but still equivalent of cable theft causing network delays of over an hour a day.
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