8
Jan
2016
By Calvin at 10:14 GMT, 10 years ago
An important new report from the Home Office concerning vehicle theft has just been published. Reducing criminal opportunity: vehicle security and vehicle crime analyses trends in vehicle security devices and tries to determine the extent to which improved security has driven down vehicle-related theft in England and Wales and other nations.
So far I’ve just scanned the Executive summary, but already it looks to be a really informative piece of work, which should help encourage the motor industry to start taking the next important steps to help us prevent vehicle crime.
I see the online Telegraph newspaper reported on it on 4January and highlighted a couple of stand-out aspects of the report, which included ‘Pinch and Park’. This is where the villains steal a high value vehicle and park it safely for a few days to see if it attracts police interest. If the police do not recover it then this is a sure guide that the vehicle has not been fitted with a tracking device, allowing them to remove the vehicle from the secure parking place into their workshop where they will work on it to alter its identity before selling it on.
Reducing criminal opportunity: vehicle security and vehicle crime https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/489097/horr87.pdf
