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January to August 2025 DVLA Stolen Cars

DVLA ‘stolen’ data.

Constabulary 2025Stolen CountRecovered CountRecovery %Avg Days to RecoverTop MakeSalvage After StolenSalvage %
Metropolitan Police Service11213468741.825.12TOYOTA1171.04
West Midlands Police5565229741.2818.97FORD350.63
Greater Manchester Police179992951.6420.45FORD100.56
West Yorkshire Police178490450.6715.58FORD170.95
Essex Police170854531.9121.95FORD171
South Yorkshire Police121032326.6929.82FORD120.99
Thames Valley Police95650352.6224.18MERCEDES-BENZ40.42
Kent Police80927634.1230.38FORD60.74
Staffordshire Police76336547.8417.96FORD70.92
South Wales Police73240154.7817.76FORD40.55
Hertfordshire Police71226937.7829.33BMW10.14
Not Known70513819.5745.03FORD131.84
Avon & Somerset Police64739761.3622.71FORD101.55
Leicestershire Police62436358.1716.17BMW111.76
West Mercia Police58223840.8919.97BMW91.55
Lancashire Police57134760.7717.18FORD122.1
Warwickshire Police54722941.8621.99BMW20.37
Merseyside Police44720646.0920.59FORD00
Hampshire Police43027964.8820.56FORD51.16
Nottingham Police42618844.1313.36FORD61.41
Strathclyde Police41025361.7121.77FORD30.73
Surry Police40716239.824.49FORD81.97
Sussex Police37921857.5217.87FORD61.58
Bedford Police37113837.227.43VAUXHALL30.81
Lothian & Borders Police33919056.0521.21FORD51.47
Derbyshire Police32613240.4925.98FORD10.31
Humberside Police31719059.9414.07FORD61.89
Cambridgeshire Police31216954.1724.05BMW20.64
NAVCIS29313345.3923.18AUDI10.34
Northumbria Police2848830.9924.58FORD00
Devon & Cornwall Police24917369.4819.28FORD41.61
Cheshire Police23213056.0318.89FORD10.43
Northamptonshire Police21510950.726.02BMW62.79
Lincolnshire Police2039647.2913.9FORD10.49
Durham Police1885328.1923.23FORD00
Gwent Police1698147.9316.68LAND ROVER00
Dorset Police1568151.9225.25MERCEDES-BENZ31.92
Cleveland Police1567447.4420.28FORD21.28
North Yorkshire Police1377252.5510.76AUDI21.46
Suffolk Police1265946.8321.22AUDI00
PSNI1247056.4521.41AUDI32.42
Gloucestershire Police1246048.3917.32BMW00
Norfolk Police1225545.0825.31BMW10.82
Wiltshire Police1146657.8922.68BMW10.88
Tayside Police714157.7512.15VAUXHALL11.41
Grampian Police573256.1417.31VOLKSWAGEN00
Central Scotland Police563460.7127.88FORD00
Fife Constabulary512650.9815.5FORD00
North Wales Police471838.351.5BMW00
Dyfed Powys Police461430.4334.79LAND ROVER12.17
British Transport Police44715.9116.14FORD00
Cumbria Police371951.3529.68FORD25.41
Northern Police171058.824.3VOLKSWAGEN00
Dumfries & Golloway Police200LAND ROVER00
City of London Police100MERCEDES-BENZ00
National Crime Agency100KIA00

Recent Posts:

  • The ICO – running out of time?
  • 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
  • Headlamp Dazzle & Eye-Snatching
  • Scrap ‘six-week weeding’ of stolen vehicle VRMs
  • Police Vehicle Theft Reports – A Lack Of Understanding And Standardisation

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