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35,000 pints of stolen Guinness, 950 wheels of pilfered cheese.
Can the UK's cargo theft crisis be stopped?
By Stuart McGurk.
Read by Nicholas Cam.
In August 2021, Mike Dorber, the UK's leading detective in cargo crime, got a call from officers in Bradford CID.
They were planning to search two warehouses that contained, in their words, an awful lot of suspicious goods.
This was a job that required Dorber's expert eye.
He drove an hour from his home in the unmarked police car that doubles as his office
and arrived to discover the description.
Barely did it justice.
As soon as he walked into the first warehouse, he noticed 17 pallets of golfing equipment.