2020H1 CRIME DATA


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• €3,000,000 – On 14 March, offenders used forged documentation to facilitate the deceptive pick-up of a shipment of phones from an Aviation Transportation Facility at Amsterdam Schiphol


• €2,000,000 – Six offenders in two cars blocked a road in Nantes, western France, to forcibly stop and hijack a truck carrying tobacco and cigarettes shortly after it left a warehouse in the area on 7 June


• €1,318,200 – Thieves used a tractor unit to force their way into a haulage yard in Haydock in the North West region of the UK on 18 January before stealing a trailer loaded with alcohol products


• €1,144,805 – The theft of stock from a sporting goods warehouse in Grimsby, Lincolnshire in the UK, on 2 April


• €1,098,500 – A second Theft from Facility reported in Grimsby on 30 March and the theft of clothing and footwear products, believed to have been conducted over a four-day period by thieves using an HGV and trailer


• €1,033,877 – on 10 April, a truck carrying a shipment of phones from Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport was hijacked while en route to a warehouse facility


The United Kingdom recorded the highest number of major cargo losses in this reporting period with 56 or 63.6% of all crimes with a value of €100,000 or more. These produced a total loss of €27,658,653 or an average of €493,905. A further 10 took place in Germany, with an overall total and average of €2,470,195 and €247,020 respectively. France recorded 7 major losses totalling €3,568,000 or an average of €509,714, while the 6 major losses in the Netherlands reported corresponding figures of €4,209,178 or an average of €701,530.


Outside of the €1m-plus losses, the next 10 highest major cargo thefts reported to TAPA’s IIS in the half-year were:


• €675,054 – Computers/laptops stolen from a truck in Milton Keynes in the UK on 2 June after thieves cut through the vehicle’s tarpaulin curtain


• €659,100 – Thieves forced open the rear doors of a vehicle parked at a location in Burghclere, Hampshire, in the UK, and stole a shipment of power tools on 19 March


• €615,160 – The theft of motorcycles from a Services 3rd Party Facility in Clifton Upon Dunsmore in the UK county of Warwickshire on 13 June


• €549,250 – Another curtain-cutting crime, this loss saw a cargo of clothing and footwear products taken from a truck in an unclassified parking location at a motorway service area (MSA) in Peterborough in eastern England on 8 January


‘Small-time, opportunist cargo thieves may well have opted to ‘stay home’ to avoid the higher level of scrutiny of public movements but for the more strategic OCG operations, this was not only a time of ‘business as usual’ but also one which presented new and lucrative opportunities.’


• €549,250 – In a similar type of crime, offenders took cosmetics and hygiene products from a vehicle at a MSA in Westerham in Kent, UK, on 30 January


• €549,250 – In this case of Fraud, criminals in the UK used bogus company information to order a trailer load of metal from an overseas supplier in June


• €530,000 – An employee working in an Aviation Transportation Facility in Schiphol in the Netherlands was arrested on 16 May in connection with the theft of 4,400 smartwatches


• €524,457- A truck loaded with soap and sanitiser was hijacked while en route in Midrand in South Africa’s Gauteng province on 26 May. Eight suspects were later arrested in connection with the crime and some of the load was recovered


• €521,787 – Thieves entered the secure yard of a business in Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk, UK, on 8 February and stole a vehicle loaded with miscellaneous products


• €439,400 – A second major crime recorded at a motorway services in Peterborough, UK, this incident on 21 January involved the theft of machinery and parts after the offenders cut the tarpaulin side of the vehicle


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