Why is lead so becoming a target for theft.

It's all to do with the industrialisation and urbanisation of china. The eastern giant, with a population of 1.3 billion, is going through its own Industrial Revolution -and one on a massive scale, china's cities are growing at such a rate that by 2020 an extra 400 million people will have been urbanised.

That means that over the next 15 years ,something like 20 million people will be urbanised every year ,that's like building new York and London every year.

The result was that china is "mopping up" the worlds reserves of metal. the past three years or so metal has more than doubled. lead is now thought to fetch

A £1,000 a tonne-while copper is now fetching £3,500 a tonne, no wonder the criminal world is taking notice.

WHO ARE THE THIEVES TARGETING?

Schools, churches , shops, factories, railway lines, care homes, residential homes, if they can take it ,they will .churches and schools seem to be the most at risk as they are often isolated, and have high level of lead and copper on their roofs

How can we help you protect your home, we can supply and discretly apply a dna grease, Police have immediate evidence that the lead thief has been up to no good. Police can then forensically analyse the perpetrator and the stolen lead and link the suspect to the crime scene. Protect your home, school or church today with a DNA Grease. The Grease with a secret DNA tracer allows you to mark lead windows, lead pipes and lead roofing quickly and easily. Then putting up bright orange warning signs that everything is DNA marked, warns lead thieves to stay away.

Please note that once this has been applied the scrap value of the lead is worthless as any scrap metal merchant would never purchase it as they are subject to random Police checks.

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?

S.F. Roofing will charge at cost for this protection, but please bear in mind its not just the stolen lead replacement value to consider it is also the cost of any internal damage due to water ingresss etc.