TAPA IIS Locations of the 133 recorded cargo crimes in November UNITED KINGDOM


Position on map Number of incidents East Midlands


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2 East of England 3 South East


4 West Midlands 5 Yorkshire & the Humber


83 17 15 10 1


8 5 7


4 1


6


6 Greater London 7 North West 8 North East


3 3 1


3


Same van, same M.O in tobacco crimes


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Police in the UK believe the same vehicle and M.O were used in two incidents involving tobacco deliveries last month. On 30 November, an offender with his face covered climbed into the back of a truck as the driver was inside the vehicle preparing to make a delivery in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire. He was joined by an accomplice who helped to steal a shipment of cigarettes, before a third man pulled down the shutter of the truck, leaving the driver inside. After a short time, the driver opened the shutter and took a photo of a white Transit high top van and its registration plate, believed to have been used by the thieves. This appears to have been the same vehicle used in a similar attack in North London on 7 November, which captured the van and three suspects on CCTV. One of the suspects is said to have an Irish accent.


GERMANY 1 Bavaria 2 Lower Saxony


3 North Rhine-Westphalia 4 Hesse


5 Baden-Württemberg 6 Saxony-Anhalt


7 Rhineland-Palatinate 8 Brandenburg 9 Saarland 10 Bremen 10 Hamburg


12 Schleswig-Holstein


Locations of the 48 recorded cargo crimes in November Position on map Number of incidents


12


10 10 7 3 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1


• The locations of 4 incidents were unknown


11 10 8 2 3 4 7 9 12 6


Bogus police car targets truck in Belgium


On the night of 6 December, a truck driver travelling in the direction of Venlo on the E34 in Turnhout, Belgium, noticed a genuine-looking police car with flashing lights driving alongside his vehicle and saw one of the occupants instructing him to pull over into a parking place. Feeling that something was not right, the driver called the 112 emergency number and was advised there were no police surveillance vehicles in his location. By this time, the suspect vehicle had driven away. Whilst this M.O. has been recorded several times in France, this is believed to be the first such incident to have occurred in Belgium.


Pharmacist arrested in pharma re-export case


1 5


A Syrian pharmacist with a Bulgarian passport is believed to have led a money laundering scheme for the re-export of pharmaceuticals involving millions of Bulgarian Lev. More than 20 people have been question by police after the arrest of the main suspect.


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