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INCIDENT DATA


Overall, TAPA recorded incidents in 12 countries in the EMEA region during the month. Aside from the UK and Germany, no other countries reported a double-digit rate of incidents. France was the country with the third highest number of crimes, 7 or 3.4% of the total, ahead of four in South Africa.


Nine major losses with a value of €100,000 or more were notified to the Association in November with a total value of €1,570,694 or an average of €174,521. The major incidents were:


€337,268


The theft of Clothing & Footwear in Barking, UK, on 6 November after thieves cut open the curtain side of a parked and attended truck.


The facts speak for themselves; attacks on vehicles in unsecured parking locations now present the greatest risk to high value, theft targeted cargoes as well as to drivers and their vehicles. Crimes notified to TAPA’s IIS and reported in previous issues of Vigilant in the first 11 months of 2017 show:


• January – 98 incidents at unsecured parking locations, 64.9% of the monthly total


• February – 168 incidents or 72.8% • March – 114 incidents or 72.2% • April – 154 or 77.8% • May – 160 or 75.5% • June – 140 or 75.4% • July – 130 or 73.4% • August – 109 or 75.7% • September – 126 or 76.3% • October – 185 or 75.1% • November – 173 or 85.1%


The latest recorded cargo crime intelligence for November 2017 shows that the two countries with the highest reported incident rates – the United Kingdom and Germany – accounted for 89.1% of the monthly total or a combined 181 incidents. In the UK, 125 or 93.9% of these crimes took place when trucks stopped in unsecured parking locations. In Germany, the figure was 83.3%.


Overall, for the month, there were 173 cargo crimes committed in unsecured parking locations in EMEA, 85.1% of all incidents reported to the IIS database in November, a


rate of 5-6 new attacks on trucks every day. It is a situation that cannot be allowed to continue without some co-ordinated effort to find safe places for trucks to stop.


On 11 November, IIS was notified of curtain- cutting attacks on 110 trucks at parking sites in Bavaria. A further 20 trucks were targeted at the Fläming East & West service areas in Niemegk, Brandenburg, in Germany on 5 November.


November 2017’s overall data is influenced by the fact that no data was available from Dutch law enforcement as Vigilant went to press. Consequently, the 203 newly-reported cargo crimes in EMEA for last month show a 12.1% reduction in incidents year-on-year. However, bearing in mind there were 78 cargo crimes in the Netherlands in November 2016, the final figure for November 2017 will almost certainly show an upward trend once the Dutch data is added into the IIS database.


Of the 203 incidents, 156 or 76.8% reported a value, producing a combined loss total of €5,292,619. The average loss for crimes with a value in November was €33,927.


€248,002


Perfumes were stolen on 20 November when offenders targeted a parked and attended truck and semi-trailer in an unsecured parking location in Gravesend, Kent, in the UK.


€211,000


Thieves entered a transport yard through a back fence and removed Clothing & Footwear from loaded trailers that were ready to make deliveries the following day. This incident on 5 November occurred at a Services 3rd Party Facility in Greater London.


€169,985


This Theft of Trailer crime in Widnes, Cheshire, in the UK on 11 November saw thieves force their way into a secured transport yard in order to steal two trailers loaded with alcohol and household products.


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