Sensor monitoring can be installed to detect forced entry at a site
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A Caerphilly scrap metal merchant had a large sum of cash stolen. GLJ Recycling on the Penyfan Industrial Estate in Crumlin was raided by men wielding shotguns and wearing balaclavas. Gwent Police issued descriptions: one of the men is approximately five feet ten inches tall and wore a green three quarter length jacket. The other is 5ft 8in, stocky and wore a dirty high visibility jacket. Anyone with information about the incident, in which no one was injured, should call 101.
Access Control systems from Access Control Wales enable a wide range of access control profiles to be created, as well as barrier and CCTV monitoring equipment at your outdoor and indoor site. The system has near real time display showing which doors are being opened and their alarm status. Doors may be configured to lock automatically on burglar alarms. Door or barrier access can be limited depending on the person’s roll call status, while sensor monitoring can be installed to detect forced entry.
Metal thieves have struck again in Wales, this time at the entrance pillars at Bargoed Park in two different attacks. Various plaques were taken, one incident taking place on a Monday evening recently and others in midweek. Two of the plaques have distinctive features. One shows an image of Morgan Jones MP along with information about him and his ties to the area. Gwent police have put officers on patrol in the area.
Two hundred students were studying for a University of Wales-validated degree at a disgraced college which has been probed for visa fraud. The college under investigation, Rayat London, said it had suspended three of its staff who were allegedly involved and had referred the matter to the police. It says about 80 of the students affected will need to transfer to alternative centres who provide equivalent University of Wales degrees, and is aiding them in doing so. 
Thefts of oil are up 500% across Wales. In the Dyfed-Powys police force area, the recorded thefts which had a value attached to them totalled £135,000 over the five-year period. In South Wales in 2007 there were just five instances, but this rocketed to 20 in 2011. Similarly, North Wales Police had a figure of 25 five years ago but this went up to 168 last year.
A councillor who cycled the length of Wales to raise awareness about a lack of public toilets said she was pleased with the findings of a new report. Llais Gwynedd councillor Louise Hughes rode 153 miles (246km) from Gwynedd to Cardiff to meet Assembly Members to ask for improved provision. She said of a government committee’s view there is a public health case for better public toilets: 
Opening times of stations will be altered in an overhaul of the South Wales police service. Eight main stations will open longer, between 16 and 24 hours a day. They are at Bridgend, Barry, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff Central, Merthyr, Neath, Pontypridd, and Swansea Central. Mobile police stations will be brought in and crimes can be reported and kept track of online. Richard Jones from the Police Federation in south Wales 
A man has been remanded in custody by a court in Llandudno after he admitted stealing copper three times from a Scottish Power compound in Rhyl. The prosecution accused 21-year-old Michael Hancock, of no fixed address, of stealing copper worth £2,200 and selling it each time at £100 to a local dealer. Hancock will appear before Prestatyn magistrates for sentencing next month. 
Neath Port Talbot, Singleton and Morriston hospitals all had their computer services go down due to theft of underground cables. The incident in Swansea on February 2 meant the hospitals had to go onto their back-up systems after communication cables were stolen. Dougie Russell, the director for Musculo-Skeletal Services in Swansea, and the senior surgeon with the ABM Health Board, said the incident was 
The children’s hospice at Ty Hafan has had an unusual act of generosity bestowed upon it. Staff at the store in Cardigan, Ceredigion, were distraught when a thief took an original Paddington Bear. However after receiving a Paddington drawing from one of his official artists, the store’s retail manager Alan Drury said: “You can imagine everyone’s excitement.” Ty Hafan is the only children’s hospice in south Wales, providing support to families as well as palliative care to children.
“Last week a 999 call came in from someone wanting directions to a KFC,”