POLICE in Hereford are trying to track down a van with specific writing on the front after a crime was committed near Hereford.

West Mercia Police said pallets had been stolen twice from a firm in Whitestone Business Park, east of Hereford.

PCSO Christina Powell, working in the Hereford Rural North Safer Neighbourhood Team said the first theft occurred on Monday, January 31 at 12.05am with the second theft on Monday, February 6 at around 10.25pm.

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She said that police suspected the two offenders were in a white Ford Transit flatbed.

On the front of the Transit was the writing "RECYCL KING METALS".


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PCSO Powell said she hoped it would "make the vehicle stand out a bit more".

She also said patrols would be upped in a bid to find the offending vehicle and people.

Anyone with information about the thefts or Transit that could help the investigation should email police at herefordrn.snt@westmercia.police.uk quoting reference 22/12750/23.