While other categories of reported serious and violent crime have been declining, the number of Cash and Valuables in Transit (CVIT) robberies is increasing. In the first ten months of 2009 there were 911 of these offences in the UK, 15 per cent more than the 791 in the same period in 2008. In 2008 the last three months of the year saw the highest monthly totals and the same pattern is expected th …[more]