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INCIDENT DATA


PRODUCT CATEGORY Unspecified Tobacco


Food & Drink


Clothing & Footwear Miscellaneous


Cosmetics & Hygiene Car Parts


No %


72 38.3% 30 16.0% 23 12.2% 13 6.9% 10 5.3% 7 3.7% 6 3.2%


Furniture/Household Appliances 5 2.7% Tools/Building Materials Tyres


Computers/Laptops Toys/Games Metal


Bicycles No Load


Pharmaceuticals


Most notable in August was the high number of tobacco thefts recorded in the UK, 28 in total with a combined loss value of €432,664. Whether these are the work of a single criminal group is not possible to confirm but the losses clearly demonstrate the challenges facing tobacco supply chains.


London, with six crimes, and Bristol, with four, reported the highest number of tobacco thefts. TAPA EMEA also recorded incidents in 13 other UK counties.


This also resulted in Tobacco being the IIS product category with the highest number of losses in August – 30 overall or 16% of the monthly total – displacing Food & Drink, which has consistently ranked number one in every previous month of 2018. In August, there were 23 thefts involving Food & Drink, 12.2% of the overall total. Clothing & Footwear was the only other product category to record double-digit losses, 13 in total or 6.9%. Overall, thefts were reported in 13 IIS product categories.


Data for the most recorded types of incident, location and M.O. showed a now familiar number one in each category:


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Type of incident – Theft from Vehicle, 170 incidents or 90.5% of the August total


Type of location – Unsecured Parking, 146 or 77.7%


• Type of M.O. – Intrusion, 161 or 85.7%


The higher than usual number of Theft from Moving Vehicle crimes – 16 in August – can


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be attributed to the rise in recorded tobacco thefts, which accounted for 12 of these cases of modus operandi. In most of these incidents, thieves targeted delivery vehicles while they were moving in slow traffic or waiting at traffic lights in the UK.


Analysis of all incidents reported to TAPA‘s IIS in August shows that of the seven countries suffering cargo losses, 175 of 93.1% of these crimes took place in the UK. The total loss for the 165 of these crimes stating a financial value was €6,898,855, resulting in an average loss in the UK in August of €41,811.


In the majority of UK incidents last month, the products stolen were unspecified but significant losses were still recorded in a further 11 IIS product categories:





Computers/Laptops – 4 incidents with a total value of €2,429,301


Clothing & Footwear – 13 incidents, €689,297


Food & Drink - 21 incidents, €640,121


4 2.1% 4 2.1% 4 2.1% 3 1.6% 2 1.1% 2 1.1% 2 1.1% 1 0.5%


• Tobacco – 28 incidents, €432,664 •


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Furniture/Household Appliances – 5 incidents, €400,854


Cosmetics & Hygiene – 6 incidents, €264,470


Tools/Building Materials – 4 incidents, €198,393


• Car Parts – 6 incidents, €175,261 • Tyres – 2 incidents, €159,038 • Toys/Games – 3 incidents, €132,573 • Bicycles – 2 incidents, €101,198


UK motorway service areas remained a hotspot for cargo thefts in August.


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