Criminal offences against road freight transport

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Criminal offences against road freight transport
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Types of crimes

• Armed robberies
• Thefts
• Obtaining goods
• Assaults on wholesales, warehouses, etc.

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Assaults on road transports drivers in1993 2008
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Map of assaults carried out in 2000 year
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Map of assaults carried out in 2001 year
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Map of assaults carried out in 2002 year
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Methods of committing road robberies

• 1. Pretending a policeman
• 2. Spike
• 3. On the car park during the stop
• 4. Blocking
• 5. Other

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Dealing with the driver

• Exhaustion
• Keeping
• Exoneration (letting go)

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Dealing with the vehicle

• Seizure
• Leaving

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Pretending a policeman method
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Car fresh painting
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Vehicles lost in a period of 2003 - 2008
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Trucks lost in a period of 2003 - 2008
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Vans lost in a period of 2003 - 2008
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Commodity stolen most often

•         - white brown goods,
• - electronics, computers (grey goods),
•         - alcohol,         
• - cigarettes,
•         - nutritive articles (coffee),
•         - cosmetics economic chemistry,
• - clothing.

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Event simulation

• Blackmailing the driver
• Intentional drivers action dictated by a desire
  to profit

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Swindling goods

• False haulier method
• getting documents
• depositing of offer
• getting the order
• missing the truck with goods

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Consequences

• Loosing load
• Loosing reputation and reliability
• Additional disadvantage potential necessity of
  paying the compensation

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How to counteract?

• Avoiding commitioning of transport to the new,
  unfamiliar companies, particularly if goods are
  higly attractive (such equipment as audio/video
  devices and household appliances, computer
  accessories, mobile phones, cosmetics etc.),
• Demanding references first, if starting
  cooperation with new companies,
• After receiving references necessarily verify
  them at previous principals,
• Each time demanding prealert from the carrier who
  will come for goods, prealert should contain
  drivers details,
• In case of any doubts regarding authenticity of
  documents immediately call Police on. At the same
  time trying not to judge whether the situation is
  a real threat or not.

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Counteracting

• Action of Police
• - detection
• - preventive
• Action of insurance companies
• Action of shipping companies

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Security systems

• Systems of the satellite navigation (GPS)
• Convoys
• Staff training

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Institutions and services authorized to regulate
road traffic

• There is a law in Polish law regulations stated
  what kind of institutions / services are entitled
  to regulate road traffic this is USTAWA z dnia
  20 czerwca 1997 r. Prawo o ruchu drogowym Dz.U.
  2005 nr 108 poz. 908 (tekst jedn.)
• This law mentions about such organs of
  authorities as policeman, commune guard (urban),
  railway worker on the railway crossing, official
  of the border guards and many more.
• Due to a rich variety of these institutions and
  updates in the law, drivers might miss a
  particular knowledge and do not feel confident
  while being stop by a particular organs of
  authorities.

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Analysis of safety and security on railway
areas in the period of 2004 2008
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Crimes at the railway area in the period of 2004
- 2008
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Murders at the railway area in the period of 2004
2008
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Robberies at the railway area in the period
of 2004 2008
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Beating and batteries at the railway area in the
period of 2004 - 2008
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Thefts at the railway area in the period of 2004
2008
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Crimes found in passenger trains in the years
2004 - 2008
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Crimes found in the stations, railway stations
and stops in the years 2004 - 2008
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Crimes stated in the freight trains in the years
2004 - 2008
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Accidents at level crossings in the period 2004 -
2008
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Thank you for your attentionMiroslaw
Gruszeczka expert in questions of safety of road
transport601-200-781
All statistic data re crimes presented in this
presentation comes from Polish Police department
web site (Komenda Glówna Policji).