By Malcolm Prior BBC News Rural Affairs Producer Image caption, Farm thefts last year were valued at £40.5m Theft of farmers’ animals, automobiles and fuel is on the increase due to the UK’s cost-of-living crisis, according to a brand-new countryside criminaloffense report. Rural criminaloffense claims payments inbetween January and March were over 40% greater than in 2021, insurancecompany NFU Mutual states. It alerted increasing food costs might see animals thefts boost additional and infected meat gointo the food chain. The NFU desires the federalgovernment to launch a nationwide taskforce to offer with rural criminalactivity. David Exwood, the NFU’s vice-president, stated: “Taking a joined-up technique and developing a cross-governmental job force – consistingof Defra, the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice, the National Police Chiefs Council and the Association of Police & Crime Commissioners –
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