Organised Crime And Thefts From Heavy Goods Vehicles

EDM number 358 in 1993-94, proposed by William Powell on 17/01/1994.

That this House is alarmed at the ever increasing number of thefts of and from heavy goods vehicles and other commercial vehicles and trailers and from associated warehouses; notes the consequential increases to insurance premiums which are now being charged to hauliers in order to meet the cost of such criminal enterprises; is appalled at the general damage to commerce which results and deplores the reduction in the number of police officers and the Metropolitan Police Serious Stolen Motor Vehicles Investigation Squad, SO1 (6); and calls for a national campaign to be co-ordinated by the Home Office and to involve all police forces as well as representatives from insurance companies and the road haulage industry in order to defeat this most serious explosion of organised, international crime.

This motion has been signed by a total of 79 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.