TAPA IIS €143,278


In San Fernando de Henares, Spain, this incident began when a driver unhooked his trailer loaded with miscellaneous products and left it overnight on a public street. The trailer was later discovered inside a warehouse where its load was being transferred into a van. Guardia Civil are reported to have arrested the offenders following a shoot-out on 12 November.


€134,000


Fraud was used in this Deceptive Pick-up on 4 November, which saw a driver arrive with a tractor unit at an Origin Facility in Heywood, Manchester, UK, and use false documentation in order to steal a trailer loaded with whisky.


€120,000


Thieves unscrewed a section of a security fence in Cloppenburg, Lower Saxony, in Germany, to conduct this Theft from Facility crime on 25 November. They escaped with car parts stolen from parked trucks.


€107,161


On 15 November, Toys & Games were stolen in a Theft from Vehicle incident in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, UK. Thieves cut the curtain side of a parked and attended truck at Hilton Park Motorway Services Area.


TAPA EMEA’s IIS team also received reports of a further 20 crimes involving losses of between €50,000 and €100,000. The total loss for these incidents of €1,204,663 resulted in an average loss of €60,233. The top 10 crimes by value in this loss category were:


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• €78,456 – Tyres stolen from a vehicle parked on an industrial estate in Shepshed, Leicestershire, UK, on 22 November. Thieves cut a hole in the curtain side of the parked and attended semi-trailer before using an axle-grinder to cut through the rear locks on the vehicle;


• €73,321 – Car Parts were the target in this Theft from Vehicle crime in a layby on the A421 in Renhold, Bedfordshire, UK, on 15 November;


• €73,074 – Clothing & Footwear taken from a parked and attended semi-trailer in Gravesend, Kent, UK, on 1 November;


€100,000


240 flat screen televisions were stolen in just 30 minutes after offenders broke open the rear door lock of a truck in an unsecured parking location in Appenweier, Baden- Württemberg, Germany, on 23 November.


• €70,000 – Thieves cut the curtain side of a truck in an unsecured parking location in Scheinfeld, Bavaria, in Germany, in order to steal 13 bicycles and e-bikes on 30 November;


• €68,030 – A layby on the A14 in Twywell, Northamptonshire, UK, was the scene of another curtain-cutting crime involving a parked and attended trailer. Furniture/ Household Appliances were taken in this crime on 30 November;


• €68,030 – Another theft of Tyres, this incident took place in Daventry, Northamptonshire, in the UK on 28 November, after the offenders cut the tarpaulin side of a parked and attended truck;


• €65,949 – A similar M.O. was used to steal Computers/Laptops from a truck in Newark, Nottinghamshire, UK, on 23 November;


• €65,424 – Sports training shoes were stolen from a vehicle at Newport Pagnell Motorway Services in the UK on 15 November in another curtain-cutting incident;


• €62,457 – Thieves forced open the rear doors of a secured HGV and semi-trailer on 3 November and took a shipment of Computers/Laptops. This crime occurred in a layby in North Hykeham, Lincolnshire, in the UK;


• €59,557 – Another loss of Computers/ Laptops and another crime in Daventry, UK, and another curtain-cutting incident – this time on 9 November.


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