IIS INCIDENT DATA - EMEA


games, consoles, gamepads, jewellery, watches, phones and cameras.


• Officers in the UAE arrested eight offenders who broke into a warehouse and stole sanitaryware and cameras.


• Police arrested three men in connection with the theft of four HGVs in Gwent in Wales. The four stolen lorries were also recovered.


• Police detained four men and recovered six pallets of high value electrical goods stolen from an HGV in West Yorkshire in the UK.


Some of the types of M.O. reported also included:


• Two incidents in which pepper sprays were used to incapacitate truck drivers in Magdeburg and Berlin, Germany.


• €55,159 – On 16 February, a truck transporting copper pipes was hijacked by three men posing as police officers in Brakpan, South Africa.


• €54,620 – In Cape Town, South Africa, on 1 February, four suspects stole a truck from a Destination Facility and escaped with the vehicle and its cargo of food and drink products.


• €50,585 – Thieves hijacked a truck carrying groceries as it was delivering to a supermarket in Delmas, South Africa, on 4 February. Police later arrested four suspects.


• €50,000 – Offenders stole a refrigerated trailer loaded with 19 tonnes of fresh meat from a Services 3rd Party Facility in Boizenburg, Germany, on 19 February.


• €50,000 - Five offenders stole 20 high value bicycles from a facility in Legnano, Italy, on 2 February after breaking down a door and using a van to crash through the security shutters. Once inside, the offenders took only two minutes to steal the mountain, road and e-bikes. The incident was captured on security cameras and the police have launched an investigation in an attempt to identify the offenders.


Overall, TAPA received reports of cargo losses from supply chains in 17 countries in EMEA last month. Four countries in the region recorded double-digit incident rates:


• United Kingdom – 32 incidents (31.8% of the monthly total)


• Germany – 16 (15.6%) • South Africa – 14 (13.7%) •


Italy - 10 (9.8%)


Over a two-week period in the UK, TAPA received 10 reports of ‘jump up’ thefts from lorries delivering goods in London and the surrounding area.


Nearly half of February’s loss reports did not specify the types of products targeted, while other thefts were recorded in 14 IIS product categories, including:


• Food & Drink – 15 crimes (14.7% of the February total)


• Tobacco – 8 (7.8%) • Furniture/Household Appliances – 5 (4.9%) • Tools/Building Materials – 4 (3.9%) • Cash – 4 (3.9%)


Theft from Vehicle was the most recorded type of incident in February – 31 or 30.3% - and the type of location with most loss reports was once again Unclassified Parking, with 34 or 33.4%.


Other intelligence reported to TAPA’s IIS in EMEA last month included more police successes:


• Traffic police officers recovered a stolen truck in Grottammare, Italy, and its load of precision tools. The driver was arrested.


• A police raid on the home of a warehouse employee in Saran, France, recovered €18,000 of stolen goods, including video


• A gang targeted a cash-in-transit vehicle en route in Castelluccio dei Sauri, Italy, setting fire to two cars to create a roadblock and later spreading multipoint nails onto the highway to hinder any police pursuit.


• Offenders claiming to be police officers assaulted a truck driver in Achern in Germany during an attempted cargo theft from a vehicle parked on an industrial estate. The driver managed to escape and alert the police.


Sadly, TAPA was also notified of two fatalities; a driver of a vehicle carrying food and drink was killed during a truck hijacking in Kleinskool, South Africa, on 9 February. Four days later, a truck assistant and one other person died after six men attacked a cargo truck in Darfur in Sudan.


In another alarming crime, on 3 February, a gang escaped with a shipment of painkillers after hijacking a truck in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.


PRODUCT CATEGORY Unspecified


Miscellaneous Food & Drink Tobacco


Furniture/Household Appliances Tools/Building Materials Cash Tyres Metal


Cosmetics & Hygiene Clothing & Footwear Car Parts


Toys/Games Pharmaceuticals


No Load (Theft of truck and/or trailer) Bicycles


No 31


20 15 8 5 4 4 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1


%


30.3% 19.6% 14.7% 7.8% 4.9% 3.9% 3.9% 2.9% 2.0% 2.0% 2.0% 1.0% 1.0% 1.0% 1.0% 1.0%


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