IMPACT OF THE PANDEMIC COVID-19 TO CRIMINAL ACTIVITY IN TRANSPORT

Abstract

2020 has been a year like no other for most of us, dominated by a virus that has cost over 1.15 million lives globally and plunged the world into an economic recession which the Chief Economist of the World Bank says it could take five years to recover from. For business leaders in every sector, over the past six months it has been almost impossible to focus on anything but finding the most sustainable way through this sudden and unexpected crisis – and, for most, it will be hard to think about anything else for a long time to come as they battle to protect the futures of their organisations. Against such a dramatic and damaging backdrop, every business can be forgiven for letting Covid-19 dominate their thinking. They have shareholders to satisfy, customers to support and jobs to protect. Right now, the very survival of companies of every size remains in the balance with no end date in sight to the current crisis. The pandemic has not stopped the crime either, we can eve say that the number of criminal activities has increased. In this article, we want to point out the difference between criminal activity in transport at the beginning of 2019 compared to 2020. The statistics are taken from the international database of criminal activities processed by TAPA EMEA.