Ex-Gurkhas on peacekeeping duties at British IKEA store

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LONDON (AFP) - A team of former Gurkhas has been deployed on peacekeeping duties in Britain but the front line involves crime prevention measures in the car park of a popular Swedish furniture store.

Bosses at the branch of IKEA in Nottingham, east central England, drafted in five ex-members of the feared Nepalese fighting force three weeks ago after a spate of thefts and high rates of car crime.

Since then, not a single crime has been reported.

"It's true that there has been no crime in the car park at all since the Gurkhas came in," David Attle, the store's risk controller, told Britain's domestic Press Association news agency amid the busy bank holiday rush.