According to media reports in the UK emerging last week, counter terror police are stopping and checking petrol tankers travelling into London amid fears they may be used in a terrorist attack.Officers are searching vehicles and questioning drivers in a bid to disrupt any plans to use hijacked lorries as travelling “bombs”.
Scotland Yard said the tactic has been used for several months as part of a range of measures to counter the terrorist threat to the capital. It is part of a wider operation by traffic police who are targeting unsafe and overloaded heavy goods vehicles.
