IIS INCIDENT DATA - EMEA


• On 12 January, a shipment of solar panels assigned to a third-party carrier subsequently disappeared after being collected from a Services 3rd Party Facility in the Netherlands;


• Five temporary warehouse workers were arrested in Saran, France, on 26 January after being caught stealing goods. Security staff at the facility set up the surveillance operation after suspecting losses were taking place. The IIS report said the thieves may have been active for several months and the true value of losses could be well above the €32,000 identified so far;


Several fatalities of both company employees and offenders were recorded by TAPA EMEA last month, notably:


• On 4 January, a cash-in-transit security guard was killed during a hijacking incident in Heidedal, Free State, South Africa. A car later seized by police at the scene has since been connected to a previous hijacking;


• On 6 January, a suspect died in an explosion while trying to blow up a cash-in-transit vehicle in Randfontein, South Africa;


• On 7 January, four offenders were shot and killed by police following a failed robbery of a cash-in-transit van in Soweto, South Africa;


• On 22 January in Langlaagte, Johannesburg, South Africa, a group of offenders used explosives to attack an armoured vehicle and access the safe onboard the truck, making off with an undisclosed amount of cash. Police were later dispatched to a safe house in Katlehong, where four suspects were killed in a shoot-out;


• On 23 January, a crew member was killed after pirates boarded a container ship in Sao Tome and Principe.


Clandestine intrusion was also recorded in several countries across the region in the first month of 2021:


• 10 January – a sniffer dog located 26 migrants on a lorry at the Port of Cherbourg, which was about to board a ferry to Ireland;


• 11 January – 6 migrants from Afghanistan were discovered in a truck in Arlay, France. They may have boarded the vehicle in Romania days earlier.


Although the two drivers alerted police to the incident, they were both arrested for possible collusion;


• 14 January – 26 migrants were found inside two containers at the Port of Salerno, Italy, which had been shipped from Turkey;


• 15 January – a driver arriving back at his company premises in Soual in France, after a trip to Italy, discovered four migrants inside his trailer;


• 16 January – nine migrants were detained at the UK’s Teesport Maritime Transportation Facility after being found in a shipping container newly-arrived from Zeebrugge in Belgium;


• 28 January – a driver travelling from Serbia discovered six Afghan nationals in his truck when he stopped to offload a shipment of tyres in Monza, Italy;


• 29 January – a security guard working for a ferry company in Vlaardingen in the Netherlands found three people hiding in a trailer.


Other crime intelligence reported to TAPA’s Incident Intelligence Service in January included:


• On 10 January, an unconfirmed number of armed offenders travelling in six trucks overpowered staff at a brewery depot in Isando, Gauteng province in South Africa, and made off with liquor products;


• Also on 26 January, an employee working in a Services 3rd Party Facility in Bridgewater, UK, was caught stealing parcels from a delivery belt. The suspect allegedly used a colleague’s credentials to print off new address labels to post over €11,000 of goods to himself, family and friends;


• On 30 January, thieves who attacked a cash- in-transit vehicle at a Destination Facility in Macassar, Cape Town, South Africa, strapped an explosive device to the body of a security guard before stealing the truck. The guard was later released unharmed on the N2 highway.


PRODUCT CATEGORY Unspecified


Miscellaneous Food & Drink Cash


Tobacco Tools/Building Materials


No Load (Theft of truck and/or trailer) Computers/Laptops


Furniture/Household Appliances Clothing & Footwear Tyres


Sports Equipment Metal


Cosmetics & Hygiene Car Parts Bicycles


No 26 19 10 8 5 3 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1


%


29.9% 21.8% 11.5% 9.1% 5.7% 3.4% 3.4% 3.4% 2.3% 2.3% 1.2% 1.2% 1.2% 1.2% 1.2% 1.2%


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