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Hijackings
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The major concern for police at the moment is the disturbing rise in the number truck hijackings.
The number of cases has doubled in tw years and police are not sure why.
Truck Pol's Detective Sergeant Mark Hi says one theory is that loads are getting h tostealsocriminalsare becoming more vi Loads can be worth a huge amount of IT and thieves know truck crime is not a police priority, so they will do what they c get what they want, he believes.
The thieves become violent when the driver refuses to co-operate. Drivers are b gagged, pepper-sprayed. dra aged to the IN a van and sometimes beaten.
-It's traumatic stuff,"says Hooper.
No one has been killed yet and believes that it is unlikely ever to be the Most of the time drivers do the sensible and give up their loads.