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MPs debate lack of resources to tackle freight crime

[ December 12, 2024   //   ]

The TT Club says that the House of Commons debate in December highlighted the lack of resources specifically targeted at fighting freight crime.   

The insurer says that the National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service (NaVCIS) is under-supported and under-funded. Its specialist freight crime investigation team currently has just one full-time serving police officer on secondment, a part-time analyst and a part-time data entry clerk and does not have the resources to tackle organised crime on a national scale.

TT has long supported NaVCIS financially and practically. Managing director of loss prevention, Mike Yarwood said, “We very much welcomed the airing of this issue at a legislative level.  The detailed aspects of both opportunistic and well planned theft; the lack of secure overnight parking facilities; the identification of crime hotspots as well as concerns over driver safety, which is discouraging female recruits, were all discussed and their significance put into perspective as priorities to be addressed.”

Rachel Taylor MP, who led the parliamentary debate said: “Tackling freight crime is essential to achieving the Government’s five missions.”

TT will maintain its efforts. Yarwood is vice-chair of the industry-led HGV Parking Capacity and Standards Task and Finish group, which the Department for Transport helped establish and is leading the workstream focused on standards at lorry parking facilities and working with NaVCIS Freight and other industry stakeholders is producing an industry led report, which will advise the government on recommendations to reduce freight crime. 

“Our report is aimed at providing a detailed analysis of the current state of freight crime and offer practical solutions to enhance security and reduce incidents. In underscoring the importance of industry and government working together to safeguard the logistics sector, we hope our collaboration will encourage others to add their weight to the efforts fight crime,” concluded Yarwood.

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