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INCIDENT DATA


17 LOSSES OF BETWEEN €50,000 AND €100,000 RESULTED IN A COMBINED LOSS OF €1,149,410


7.3% of losses involved thefts of Food & Drink


In this loss range, goods were reported stolen in seven IIS product categories, with Bicycles, Clothing & Footwear, Computers/Laptops, Food & Drink and Furniture/Household Appliances all recording two incidents. The other product categories with single losses were Car Parts and Tools/Building Materials.


Overall for the 177 newly-reported cargo crimes in July, only two product categories saw 10 or more losses:


• Food & Drink – 13 or 7.3% of the month’s total


• Furniture/Household Appliances – 10 or 5.6%


All but one of the cargo thefts recorded in this loss range took place in the United Kingdom. TAPA has been asked not to report any information on the remaining incident.


In July, the top 10 losses in terms of value were:


• €99,728 – Thefts from vehicles at UK motorway services show no sign of abating. This crime at Toddington MSA on 16 July saw thieves escape with car parts after cutting the lock and seal of a parked and attended HGV semi-trailer


• €97,263 – Tools/Building Materials were stolen in this Theft of Trailer crime on 10 July which saw the offenders force their way into a secured parking location in Warwickshire and hook up a loaded semi-trailer to a tractor unit fitted with false licence plates


• €88,323 – Another incident at Toddington MSA. This crime on 3 July involved criminals cutting the locks and seals of a shipping container to steal a shipment of handbags


• €84,041 – Unspecified cargo was stolen in Derby on 22 July after thieves cut the curtain side and broke open the rear door locks of a truck in a secured yard


• €76,197 – Clothing & Footwear – notably steel-capped work boots – were taken from a parked and attended truck that had stopped in an unsecured layby parking location in Milton Keynes. Once again, the locks and seals of the back doors were broken to access the cargo in this incident on 17 July


• €63,411 – A Theft from Vehicle crime and the loss of Computers/Laptops on 7 July from a truck in an unsecured parking place in Thornby, Northamptonshire. The thieves cut the tarpaulin side of the vehicle


• €62,685 – Baby food was stolen on 2 July as thieves once again forced their way into a secured yard, this time in Northampton, to steal a loaded semi-trailer


• €61,919 – Bicycle parts were the target when offenders cut the curtain side of a truck in an unsecured parking location close to the Port of Dover in Kent on 15 July


• €60,890 – On 27 July, bicycle frames were stolen from a parked and attended truck and semi-trailer in Hertfordshire. Thieves cut the back door locks and seal of the vehicle, which was located in an unsecured parking place on the A10 in Broxbourne


• €56,027 – This Theft of Trailer incident saw the offenders use a stolen tractor unit to steal an unloaded semi-trailer from a secured transport yard in Castle Donnington, Leicestershire.


Theft from Vehicle crimes accounted for 129 or 72.8% of the July 2017 total. No other type of incident reached double figures last month. As is usually the case, most losses involved trucks that had parked in Unsecured Parking locations – 130 or 73.4% of incidents during the month.


Three cases of violence involving migrants in Belgium, France and Greece


TAPA EMEA’s IIS database recorded 11 crimes with the M.O. of Violent or Threat with Violence. These occurred across seven countries; three incidents in France, two each in Italy and South Africa and single cases that were reported in Belgium, Germany, Greece and the UK.


Three of these crimes involved Clandestines: •


18 July – A truck driver disturbed migrants trying to board his vehicle at the Port of Patras in Greece. During the incident, the driver was hit of the head with stones and needed hospital treatment





21 July – A driver en route in Calais noticed migrants trying to board his truck. He was hit on the head with a brick after getting out of the vehicle to investigate





31 July – Migrants attacked three drivers trying to defend their vehicles in an unsecured parking location in the A14 in Gentbrugge, Belgium


11 crimes with a violent M.O. were recorded in July - three incidents in France, two each in Italy and South Africa and single cases in Belgium, Germany, Greece and the UK.


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