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Rural crime rates have dropped to their lowest level in five years according to the latest figures from NFU Mutual, which estimates the cost of farm theft at just over £43m in 2020.
Coronavirus lockdown restrictions, better rural policing and beefed-up on-farm security all helped contain the cost of crime in the countryside, with a 20% fall recorded in the past 12 months, the rural insurer has revealed in its
2021 Rural Crime Report, published on 3 August.
However, farmers still need to be on their guard. Some individual items have proved more attractive than others, with the theft of high-value GPS systems rocketing to £2.9m – almost twice the previous year’s figure.
Gangs dubbed rural wraiths are using e-scooters to sneak on to farms and steal GPS systems, insurance claims for which nearly doubled last year to £2.9 million, a rural insurer has said.
Amid the coronavirus lockdowns last year, NFU Mutual said the total number of claims fell by 20 per cent to around £43.3 million in the UK.
But the cost of claims linked to the theft of GPS systems and vehicles such as quad bikes and ATVs remained at more than £9 million, only a 2 per cent drop on 2019.
This included claims for GPS systems which nearly doubled to £2.9 million, up from £1.5 million in 2019.
Gangs of ârural wraithsâ using e-scooters to sneak on to farms and steal GPS
Rural thieves are becoming âmore and more sophisticatedâ to get round high levels of security on modern farm machinery
Thieves are said to be using silent electric scooters to get into farmyards undetected (Image: Getty Images)
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