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Superficial Approach to Vehicle Taking Overlooked Organised Crime
a distillation process
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Keyless Vehicle Taking – Really?
‘Car signal jammers, to be outlawed’ (source), are said to be used in: The source…
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Accuracy & Consistency Required
“Facts are the building blocks of knowledge. Without a solid foundation, nothing can be built.”…
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Do we need new legislation?
04/03/2025 Tomorrow will see the ‘Crime and Policing Bill’ introduced to Parliament.An aspect highlights and…
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A System Built on Blind Faith? The Flaws in Police Information Dissemination
Imagine a central police information unit tasked with issuing guidance to every chief police officer…
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Which? … What?
Criticism of car insurers who are ‘generally more reliable than other sectors for accepting customer…
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The Rise & Fall of Operation Igneous
How the UK Tackled Car Crime and Let It Slip Away In the 1990s, the…
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Vehicle Taking – Quantity not Quality
Vehicle Taking – ‘Picking Low-Hanging Fruit’ Did UK Authorities intend to address: By reference to…
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Vehicle Theft: 30 years of Complacency
The Hidden Cost of Vehicle Theft: Did Complacency Leave the UK Exposed to Organised Crime?…
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The Devalued Crime Report
Some 20-odd years ago, a constabulary reported that about 30% of all ‘reports’ of vehicle…
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Vehicle Theft Surge Demands Police Action on Crime Report Disclosures
“With thefts up and recoveries down, anything we can do to help our overstretched police…
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FoIA – Staffordshire Police are not the worst offenders
And by this measure are treated leniently? The ‘Practice Notice’ can be read here. November…
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Vehicle Repatriation
In October 2024, stories emerged about ‘Stolen luxury cars found in Thailand return to UK’…
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Crime Number Devaluation
A vehicle theft crime number is not evidence a theft occurred. to the desk, line…
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Manufacturers Cause Vehicle Thefts …
Really? The press explain the ease with which vehicles can be taken, vehicle manufactruers are…
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PNC LoS Report Weeding
‘Weeding‘; the archaic process of automatically removing a Police National Computer (PNC) Lost or Stolen…
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Staff-less-shire Police Report Disclosures
Your vehicle has been stolen (or other crime committed against you) and your insurer has…
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W. Mercia Police – RTC Report Disclosures
A victory for common sense and hopefully others will follow suit: 13/09/2024, West Mercia Constabulary…
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Delaying Finalisation of Insurance Claims (for some)
“Your name’s not on the door, you’re not coming in”, or more correctly “your insurer…
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Policing (or not?) Vehicle Theft
INTRODUCTION please skip to ‘VEHICLE THEFT’ (below) if this bores you … In today’s complex…
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Fraud Not Theft … face the facts!
Insurance industry collaboration key to Essex Police vehicle fraud conviction Specialist motor insurance loss adjuster…
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Cloned Plates: Register of Keepers – Lacking Integrity?
A 14/08/2024 BBC report titled ‘Thousands hit by fines from cloned car plates‘. ‘A BBC…
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Headlamp Dazzle & Eye-Snatching
The October 2024 edition of the International Association of Auto Theft Investigators (IAATI*), Vehicle Crimes…
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Scrap ‘six-week weeding’ of stolen vehicle VRMs
Motor insurance loss adjuster Claims Management & Adjusting (CMA), part of the QuestGates Group, is…
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Police Vehicle Theft Reports – A Lack Of Understanding And Standardisation
The police handling a report of crime over the phone is practical for many reasons….
