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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Nino Bucci Justice and courts reporter

Petrol theft expected to rise in Australia as police call for more CCTV and prepaid pumps

Petrol pumps
Rising fuel prices and fears of shortages are expected to increase thefts from service stations and farms, police have warned. Photograph: Ye Myo Khant/SOPA Images/Shutterstock

The rusty green fuel trailer hardly looks like it is worth stealing, but some time before 1 March it was hooked up to the back of a vehicle and taken from a property at Huntley, south of Orange, in the New South Wales central tablelands.

It was just another in a series of thefts that police across Australia are keeping a watchful eye on.

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