A Business Director called our agency to find out if we could assist him. He told us that goods had gone missing from his warehouse but it had not been broken into. The Lorries had not been tampered with as well as the stock had all gone through the goods in department. This was happening each two weeks or so He suspected that a few of the warehouse workers and the lorry drivers may be stealing goods and splitting the profits.
We put undercover operatives into the warehouse who posed as warehouse workers. The operatives were employed for two weeks in the warehouse and they wore body cams all the time. Our operatives got friendly using the other warehouse workers. Throughout one of the night shifts a lorry came in along with the warehouse manager and one of our operatives got to function unloading it. A lot of the goods for the warehouse had been unloaded then the warehouse manager got into the lorry with the driver and they drove off. He came back about half an hour later.
The Manager took our operative to one side and told him not to tell everyone what had happened. The operative stated that as he was only there for several weeks it didn’t matter to him what was going on. The Manager provided him either some money or a few of the goods to keep his mouth shut. The operative had all this on film and video.
The lorry driver was the primary man in this scam. He would have a number of warehouses on his route with warehouse men that would assist him steal from their warehouses. When the lorry driver had the goods he would sell them to the other warehouse men who were also stealing for him.
Our client known as the police and also the lorry driver and warehouse manager were taken to the Police station for questioning. They had been each arrested and are on bail waiting to go to court.