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Criminals cash in on quad bike shortage
Date of alert:
Thursday, 24 February 2022
Crime Ref:
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Police Scotland
A SHORTAGE in new and second-hand farm machinery is fuelling a surge in quad theft from Scotland's farms.
According to rural insurer NFU Mutual, the lull in countryside crime that accompanied the pandemic lockdown is well and truly over – and thieves are cashing in on the demand for second-hand ATVs that has arisen from the paralysis in legal supply chains brought on by Covid and Brexit.
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