VI. Make the headline fit the crime. Match the headlines to the first lines of the stories that follow.

1. SURVEY PINPOINTS BURGLARY BLACKSPOTS

2. PC CLINGS FOR HIS LIFE TO JOYRIDER CAR

3. CITY MUGGER

4. PICKPOCKETS CLEANING UP

5. HIT AND RUN ROBBERY

6. BOY, 9, IN GUN HOLD-UP

7. RAM-RAID ON HOME

8. JCB RAIDERS PULL OFF HOLE IN THE WALL HEIST

9. COP’S SON RAIDED SHOPS

10. FRENCH GANG ROBS BRITONS ON TRAIN

a) Pickpockets accidentally’ smear visitors with ice-cream or ketchup, then insist on wiping them down.

b) A joyrider sped off with a policeman desperately clinging to his windscreen, a court heard yesterday.

c) A gang used a bulldozer to steal a hole-in-the-wall cash dispenser yesterday.

d) A pedestrian was left badly bruised after he was run over by a car and robbed.

e) A schoolboy was robbed at gunpoint by a 9-year old bandit.

f) Burglars smashed their way into a family home by driving through the patio windows.

g) Fourteen British tourist have been robbed of cash and jewellery worth thousands pounds by a gang of French train thieves who sprayed them with a powerful sleeping gas.

h) London’s financial center, the City, has issued an alert to banks and financial institutions around the world after a robbery in which nearly 300 million pounds of financial documents, or bonds were stolen.

i) The son of a top Scotland Yard commander took part in smash-and-grab raids which netted a 20, 000 haul.

j) You are six times more likely to return from holiday to find your home has been broken into if you live in a top-storey flat in Glasgow than a five-bed roomed detached house in Aberdeen.

VII. What types of theft could be pointed out? Use these words to complete the sentences:

A architectural b arms

C auto d bike

e petty f employee

G art

1. Hoteliers are usually happy to offer you a safe corner to park your machine overnight. This is very necessary, particularly in Paris where ___________theft is rife.

2. In the area of __________theft, insiders steal considerably more money and merchandise than outsiders.

3. Last year, more than 5, 300 vehicles were stolen in El Paso, a city of half a million people. That’s almost twice the national_______theft rate for urban areas.

4. Philip Saunders, a former dealer, estimates that works worth about J3.5 billion have gone missing this year, putting_________theft behind only the drugs trade and computer fraud in value.

5. South Miami beach is notorious for pickpockets and___________theft.

6. The organization behind__________theft is not as sophisticated as behind fine art. Panelling, fireplaces and staircases are being ripped out and sold to dealers who do not ask too many questions.

7. Two white men, one of them a policeman, have been arrested in connection with an ______________ theft last weekend, when a large quantity of weapons was taken from an air force base in Pretoria.