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TMS Transport
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Rod Cooper from Liverpool-based TMS Transport was forced to pay a £1,000 police recovery bill following a series of police blunders after his truck was stolen, The operator had an artic containing £50,000 worth of chocolate stolen from its yard in Liverpool The firm received a call from a company in Widnes, over the county border in Cheshire, saying the tractor was parked in its yard. Cooper informed Merseyside police but told them not to recover the vehicle as he would do it once the scene of crime investigation had taken place. However, Merseyside police failed to pass on his request and a Cheshire police contractor took the tractor to Warrington.
The trailer was later found near Skelmersdale, and once again Cooper told Merseyside police that he was only 15 minutes away and would recover it once the investigation was completed. But when the driver arrived to collect it the trailer had already been moved by a police contractor into Leyland.
After months of complaining Cooper finally got his money back (CM 4 December 2003).