Bumblebee puts sting into crime-fighting

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I have no idea whether or not  Chief Constables are readers of this column (if they're not, they ought to be) but I have a message for each of them: do homeowners a favour and get the Bumblebee on your team of crime fighters. It's a honey of an idea and it's designed to take some of the sting out of being the victim of a burglary.

It's all so simple: when police recover stolen property with no known owners, it is posted on an online database so that members of the public who have suffered loss can search and browse through the lists to try to identify their missing property.

Named after Operation Bumblebee, the huge roadshow in which hundreds of recovered

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