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INCIDENT DATA


AFTER FALLING IN JUNE, REPORTED CARGO THEFTS ROSE 33% YEAR-ON-YEAR IN JULY WITH TOTAL LOSSES OF MORE THAN €3.9 MILLION IN 11 COUNTRIES


After the 1% year-on-year fall in recorded cargo crimes in the EMEA region in June, the latest data from TAPA’s Incident Information Service for July 2017 shows a far more familiar trend, rising 33% on the same month a year ago to 177 new freight thefts.


Losses last month were reported in 11 countries in the region.


Of the 177 incidents, 76 or 42.9% provided financial loss data resulting in a combined value for these crimes of €3,960,191. The average loss for recorded cargo thefts in July, based on those giving a value, was €52,108.


€1,821,245 of the losses added to the IIS database last month was attributed to the five major cargo crimes reported during the month:


€700,000


On 9 July, two trucks with no loads were stolen from a Services 3rd Party Facility in Helmstedt in Lower Saxony, Germany.


€590,000


Arguably the highest profile incident in July, however, resulted in the arrests of five members of a notorious Romanian gang believed to have been involved in Theft from Moving Vehicle crimes in the Netherlands. The men were detained following an early morning raid on a holiday park in Otterlo, a village in the province of Gelderland.


The arrests follow a two-year investigation by Dutch law enforcement, according to media reports in the Netherlands. It is believed the gang may have been involved in as many as 17 attacks on moving trucks in


A Romanian gang arrested in the Netherlands are suspected of being involved in as many as 17 Theft from Moving Vehicle cargo crimes.


Europe, including five in the Netherlands. In September 2016, the threat of such attacks on trucks was raised with the Infrastructure Service department of the National Unit of the Dutch Police by the industry group Transport and Logistics Netherlands (TLN). It transpired that police were already conducting their own secret investigation, operation ‘Pinson’, into the activities of the Romanian gang.


The raid that led to the arrests followed an attack on a truck carrying Phones on a quiet section of the A73 between Venray and Venlo. Alerted by an alarm going off in his cab, the driver stopped his vehicle to investigate, only to discover the back door of the truck had been forced open and a large part of the cargo was missing. Reports say nearly 1,000 phones were taken by the offenders with a value of some €590,000.


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