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7. Investigation – Insurers vs. Police
5. Moving the Vehicle Along – Disposal
Policy Question: Is Automated Weeding Necessary?
4. Police Powers to Seize Do Not Decide Ownership
FOI Update: “Not Held” and the Question of Process
3. Who Helps The Innocent?
Remote Technology and Stolen Vehicles
2. The Innocent Purchaser
The ICO – running out of time?
1. A Police Crime Report Is Not a Title Decision
The Problem With Crime Numbers:
When Recorded Theft Is Not Believed
NaVCIS Funding: Still No Specifics
Agreed Police disclosure procedures not followed
£50 for a Police Report Update?
Section 184 Data Protection Act 2018
Keyless Taking or Key Questions?
When ‘Sale or Return’ Goes Wrong
BBC Crimewatch ‘Car Cloning’
Keyless Vehicle Theft:
Accusations of Criminality
Thefts Down – Except for Newer Cars!
Increase Pre-Crush Retention Period to 28 days?
Reducing Vehicle Theft by up to 30%
‘The Others’ … are you among them?
Vehicle Abandonments Raise Questions Over Theft Claims
The State of Vehicle Taking in the UK: A Crisis of Enforcement, Not Engineering
Keystone Krooks – but £1.4 million stolen!
2024 Vehicle Theft – how well (or otherwise) did your constabulary perform?
Vehicle Crime. Is Police Language Bluring Facts?
Superficial Approach to Vehicle Taking Overlooked Organised Crime
Keyless Vehicle Taking – Really?
Accuracy & Consistency Required
Do we need new legislation?
A System Built on Blind Faith? The Flaws in Police Information Dissemination
Which? … What?
The Rise & Fall of Operation Igneous
Vehicle Taking – Quantity not Quality
Vehicle Theft: 30 years of Complacency
The Devalued Crime Report
Vehicle Theft Surge Demands Police Action on Crime Report Disclosures
FoIA – Staffordshire Police are not the worst offenders
Vehicle Repatriation
Crime Number Devaluation
Manufacturers Cause Vehicle Thefts …
PNC LoS Report Weeding
Staff-less-shire Police Report Disclosures
W. Mercia Police – RTC Report Disclosures
Delaying Finalisation of Insurance Claims (for some)
Policing (or not?) Vehicle Theft
Fraud Not Theft … face the facts!
Cloned Plates: Register of Keepers – Lacking Integrity?
Police Theft Report Disclosure

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