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TAPA EMEA INCIDENT INFORMATION SERVICE


• On 11 April, two security officers died after being shot during the robbery of a truck carrying food and drink in Langa, South Africa.


• TAPA EMEA was notified of three trailer hook-up thefts around Immingham and Goole, UK, between 14-19 April;


• On 22 April, hundreds of components and several carbon fibre mountain bikes were stolen from a warehouse in Almelo in the Netherlands;


• On the same day, police arrested nine suspects in connection with the violent hijacking of a vehicle carrying copper in Cape Town;


• On 10 March, 11 pallets of leather goods were stolen from a vehicle parked overnight at a truck stop in Mellingen, Germany;


• Offenders dressed in metro police uniforms were captured on CCTV as they attempted to hijack a truck travelling on the N3 in Johannesburg on 12 March;


• On the same day, 26 pallets of beverages were stolen from a truck in an unclassified parking location in Dausfeld, Germany;


• Also on 12 March, a member of the public spotted two delivery drivers removing products from their trucks into a car just outside of the logistics yard in Piacenza, Italy, where they worked;


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In another truck hijacking in South Africa on 14 March, a driver was held for 13 hours while thieves organised the theft of the two trailer loads of copper he was transporting. The vehicle had broken down on the R23 in Heidelberg and awaiting a mechanic when four men in a vehicle stopped and threatened the driver;


• Two police officers and a third offender were arrested after hijacking a truck in Johannesburg, South Africa;


• On 19 March, a suspect was arrested by police in Cholet, France, after breaking into 18 trucks at an unclassified parking location. A passing motorist spotted several trucks with their cargo doors open and notified police, who found boxes of goods strewn around the parking lot;


• On the same day, thieves in Russia used deception to steal 20 tonnes of polyethylene from a facility in Tyumen;


• On 21 March, two offenders posing as police officers attempted to rob a truck near Hurth, Germany, after forcing the driver to leave a motorway and park on a quiet country road;


• 12 trucks had their tarpaulins slashed at Fleet Motorway Services on the M3 in Hampshire, UK, on 23 March;


• 20 tonnes of alcohol were stolen from a Services 3rd Party Facility in Omsk, Russia, on 23 March in a crime involving fraud and deception;


• On 25 March, falsified documentation also enabled a driver to collect a shipment of meat in Stolin, Belarus;


• On 29 March, South African police commenced a surveillance operation after being advised that a local gang were targeting truck drivers queueing at a border point. One suspect was killed in a shoot-out between the gang members and law enforcement officers;


• On 1 April, a shipment of tobacco was stolen from a truck in Limehouse, UK. CCTV showed a car in front of the truck which had stopped after the driver claimed its


handbrake had become stuck. The


thieves are believed to have entered the back of the truck during this disruption;


• On the first day of April, TAPA’s IIS was notified of 16 incidents in London involving Theft from Moving Vehicle crimes;


• Between 1 and 5 April, the curtain sides of seven trucks were cut at Northeimer Autohof in Germany;


• On 6 April, a truck en route in Krefeld, Germany, was overtaken by a car. The passenger in the car waved a police badge at the truck driver and ordered him to stop in a layby. He was then threatened with a gun by the offenders and robbed;


• A security guard was shot and killed in another truck hijacking in South Africa on 29 April;


TAPA EMEA members can find all the latest incident intelligence reported to the Association in its online Incident Information Service (IIS) database.


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