Inverness not a ‘soft touch’ for theft
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THIEVES thinking of travelling north to steal cars to order should think again, according to a city security expert.
The warning was made as it was revealed two Audi cars stolen from an Inverness car dealership last week have both been recovered.
Police are this week still trying to trace a Ford Focus taken in a separate raid on another city business just days earlier.
With fears the city could be being targeted by an organised gang Jim Ferguson, the chairman of Crimestoppers (Scotland) and former head of the Inverness-based Castle Group security firm, said if that was the case, they should reconsider.
“Anybody that is thinking that they can come up to the Highlands, that we are a soft touch, that we are an easy target – clearly the recoveries demonstrate that we are not,” he said.
“If they think they can target the Highlands with impunity they need to think again.”
Mr Ferguson congratulated police for recovering the vehicles so quickly and added: “I think it goes to show the professionalism and dedication of Police Scotland in this matter.”
Two Audi S-Line black editions, one a grey A6 estate and the other an A5 in silver, were stolen from Top Car in Harbour Road, Inverness some time between the evening of Tuesday, July 2 and 2.10am the following day.
On Tuesday this week police confirmed that both vehicles had been recovered in Dundee.
Three cars were also taken from Culloden Car Sales in Barn Church Road at some point between 8pm on Saturday, June 29, and 2.30am the following day.
A grey Range Rover and a white Mercedes CLA have both since been recovered – one locally and the other in the Dundee – but a green Ford Focus RS, registration number RS10FOR remains missing.
Police have not ruled out the possibility that the two raids could be linked and anyone with information should contact police via 101 quoting reference NN4337/19 or the Crimestoppers service on 0800 555111 or at www.crimestoppers-uk.org.
