£1.2m of Fuel Is Stolen Every Week — Inside Britain’s Drive-Off Crisis

A routine visit to a petrol station has become increasingly difficult for the people operating Britain’s forecourts. What once looked like an occasional offence is now testing security systems, staff and law enforcement.

The scale of the problem becomes clearer through the experiences behind the statistics. Rising losses, legal complications and increasingly confident offenders explain why retailers believe the existing response is failing.