Cooked three cablefish in Ilsede - police with helicopters in action!

Cooked three cablefish in Ilsede - police with helicopters in action!

in Ilsede, not far from Solschen, the police thwarted a remarkable attempt at theft last Thursday. Around 2:20 a.m. in the night, an attentive witness noticed a trio of men who tried to steal a cable drum that weighs several hundred kilograms with a valuable earth cable. Their quick reaction led the police to be alerted - and the officers quickly tracked down the situation. According to regionalheute.de they were able to discover the stolen goods and the car with a trailer at the crime scene.

The three suspects aged 22, 23 and 26 years were not ready to face the police and fled into an adjacent field on foot. Fortunately, the Phoenix police helicopter was used for support. This turned out to be crucial to track down the thieves a few hundred meters away. As stated in the reporting, this was done without resistance and the arrests led to a directly initiated criminal proceedings for attempted theft.

The current theft situation in Germany

These incidents are in a larger context, because thefts are a explosive topic in Germany. According to the Statista, there were around 1.78 million politically recorded thefts in 2022, which represents an increase compared to the previous year. The most common types of theft are particularly striking, which also include shoplifting and bicycle thefts. The clarification rate varies significantly depending on the crime, so that only 16.1% of the cases were informed in burglaries, while this is around 60% in robberies.

A related incident recently also found itself in Dresden, where the federal police arrested two men who were caught in the theft of cables in the act. Information from the civil service: Inside, show that cable theft is currently a dangerous trend that is reinforced by the increasing numbers in the field of theft and robbery in Germany. As reported [l-iz.de] (https://www.l-iz.de/melder/pol police/06/dresden-festhiehiebe-kabeldiebe-kfehen-wochende-62727/), the civil servants often had to count on particularly stubborn perpetrators in these missions.

The arrests in Dresden and the incident in Ilsede clarify that theft and similar crimes are not only annoying, but also a serious problem for society. It is to be hoped that the police can counteract the increasing tendencies through regular controls and preventive measures and that future attempts at theft will be prevented at an early stage.