Who Cares?
You do – or you will, the day your car vanishes. And you realise how alone you are.
Every year, over 100,000 people in the UK lose their vehicles to thieves. Most won’t get them back.
Their families get stuck without transport. Their wallets take a hit – taxi fares, insurance excesses, market value payouts that may feel inadequate – you are provided the value of your vehicle on the day of loss – you did not want to part with it, you now have to find its replacement. Oh, and potentially say goodbye to your no-claims bonus while you’re at it.
Then there’s the murkier side – not every report is honest. At one time, analysis revealed 30% of taking allegations involved fraud – people hoping their “stolen” car will turn into an insurance payout.
And let’s not forget the “little white liars” – those who fib on their insurance to save a few quid. If you’re one of them, guess what?
Lie about your job, for example, and your insurer may cancel your policy faster than you can say “Goodbye payout.”
No truth, no trust. No trust, no cover.
Wish to be branded a liar, unbelievable? ‘Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus’; ‘false in one thing, false in everything’ … I am a liar but telling the truth now. Possibly a little extreme but you get the point right?
Why Bother with CarCrimeUK?
Because right now, no one else does. The system is not broken – it is abandoned.
Police often treat car theft like an admin job, the vehicle was:
‘left locked, secure, no suspects, we’ll check ANPR… click‘
Spoiler: They might not even check. Crime closed in minutes … hours?
Twenty years ago, over 500,000 vehicles were reported stolen every year. Now it’s about 100,000 — and somehow the effort still is not there.
So, where is the extra time and effort going? Should car theft be easier to tackle now, not harder?
We can do better. We should expect better.
There are ways to fight back.
There are ways to protect yourself.
And we refuse to accept “they are too professional and organised” as an excuse for giving up.
CarCrime.uk exists because “professional, organised thieves” should not be an excuse for doing nothing
Doughnuts down. Dr. Martens on. Let us get moving.
About CarCrime.uk
This site is run by people who know the system, and how it fails you. Pulling together real advice, real tactics, and real experience to help real victims of vehicle crime become aware, informed.
No fluff. No spin. Just the truth – ideally, with some tools you need to keep up and not be the victim of police procedures too!
You have been warned. Now get informed.
Whilst the information contained within this site comes from a variety of people/sources, the site is managed/overseen centrally:
- LinkedIn activity
- FleetPoint – questioning police keyless car theft evidence
- Business Money – Motor claims specialist praises police and carmakers as DVLA data shows UK car thefts down
- AutoExpress – Luxury car ‘re-steal’ scams on the rise
- Insurance Times – New report process aims to cut motor claims delays and ease police pressures
- Insurance Business Magazine – Is this the most “absurd” insurance con yet?
- Fleet News – Vehicle theft figures more than double recent estimates
- Garage & MoT – ‘bogus buyer’ car theft increase
- IFA Magazine – Vehicle thefts in England & Wales costing insurers £1.5 billion a year
- Articles/posts
- ‘Brown Car Guy‘ – interviewed by
- ‘UnderCoverCriminal‘ – featured in the Undercover Criminal series – investigative journalist Paul Connolly infiltrate a fraud ring and stages a crash
- Cars, Cops & Criminals –
*More reason to engage with those who can help, will investigate the allegations, possibly consider the statistics and assist – police & victim. The pressures of police are quite incredible – the offences committed and the simplicity with which criticism can be levelled, quite staggering. The ‘3 Ps’ of the 80’s, Prisoners, Property & prosti… those engaged in the oldest profession, to be avoided to have an uneventful 30-year career, replaced with Prioritetes, Performance Insidctarors and Proportionality!
‘A Policeman’s Lot is Not a Happy One’ from the Gilbert & Sullivan-penned operetta ‘The Pirates of Penzance’, a.k.a. ‘A Slave to Duty’