Keep your eyes on those bags.
The SCMP is today reporting that police are concerned about an upswing in thefts targeting passengers on city-bound buses from Hong Kong International Airport.
The trend, the newspaper reports, appears to follow efforts to crackdown on so-called in-flight thefts, which have drawn the attention of authorities in recent years.
With increased vigilance now in the cabin, thieves are turning their attention to passengers after they “drop their guard” and hop on buses to the city, the SCMP reported.
The newspaper quoted a senior police officer attesting to an increase in cases in recent weeks.
The thieves — which the officer said could be part of a crime syndicate — targeted people who left their belongings in the luggage compartment on the lower level of the double decker bus before taking their seats.
The report cites two cases from late last year. The first the suitcase of a 25-year-old woman, containing about HK$4000 worth of property, stolen from a bus she took from the airport on Dec. 6.
The following week, a 51-year-old foreign woman reported to police that one of her suitcases was taken in a similar fashion.
