POLICE were today questioning six men in connection with truck thefts after an intelligence-led operation.

The joint surveillance operation between officers from the Central Motorway Police Group and their colleagues in the North West ended with three vehicles stopped on the M6.

Police seized suspected stolen property worth £20,000 and arrested six men, who were this afternoon being questioned by officers in Middlewich, Cheshire.

The six men were spotted in the West Midlands in a box van and two cars and were arrested on the Staffordshire Cheshire border late last night.

Chief Inspector Baljeet Sidhu, from Central Motorway Police Group, said, “This was a highly effective, intelligence-led operation.

“Its success relied on lose co-operation between the on-road crews both from CMPG and our neighbouring colleagues, the North West Motorway Police Group, Control Room staff and our intelligence resources.”

The arrests were part of a joint crackdown on lorry thefts which is running in tandem with the CMPG and West Midlands Police’s Parkwise campaign urging drivers to stop in safe areas overnight.