Australia: Bodies Cooperate on Drive-Off Blacklist
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Friday, 21 September 2012 |
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Several official service station representative bodies have come together to propose the establishment of a black list that would log and publicise drive-off fuel thieves and allow retailers to share information on suspicious vehicles visiting their fuel service stations. The number of drive-off offences has almost doubled in the last year across Queensland, where around 12,000 offences were recorded over the 2011-12 financial year.
Among the bodies to support the idea of a register is the Australian Convenience and Petroleum Marketers Association. “Our aim, in telling criminals that drive-off crime will not be tolerated, is to safeguard and protect the wellbeing of service station customers and staff, while reducing crime and the fear associated with it,” said Nic Moulis, chief executive at the ACAPMA.
“Through the activity, we propose to drive across our forecourts, we will start to tell criminals that drive-offs are something they will get caught doing, that they are being watched and reported,” he added.
Some fuel service station operators are going so far as to dock employees’ pay if a theft occurs during their shift, the RACQ has claimed. Caltex, BP and Woolworths have all denied that they dock workers’ pay.
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