New Types Of Theft From Motor Cars

The changing economic climate is changing criminalcountry where these thefts are prevalent for example
behaviour int the car crime arena. Previously it was the108 have been stolen in North Gloucestershire this
theft of the car or stereo that was of concern but , asyear. High ground clearance vehicles such as vans and
security devices made these too difficult attentionfour by fours are most at risk as the thieves do not
switched to easily stolen items such as satnavs.Theseneed to jack up the vehicle. What can be done to
too have dropped so much in price as to be worth littlecombat these new threats? Well in the case of
on the black market. Two new types of theft fromnumber plates theft, although there are plates which
vehicles have recently arrived in the U.K. The first,self destruct when an attempt is made to remove
triggered by the rise in fuel costs and tightening ofthem they will mean buying new plates, if your plates
legislation governing the supply is car number plates.are screwed to the car and not stuck on you can
New legislation has made it very difficult for criminals toreplace the normal screws with anti tamper ones for
obtain false number plates but the rise in the price ofvery little cost. If you do become the victim of number
fuel has created a demand for them. They areplate theft, report it immediately as there will probably
normally used in the theft of fuel from garages bybe a crime committed in a car with your registration
driving off without paying after filling the tank. CCTVnumber on in the near future. Trying to deter cat theft
footage is rendered useless by the false numberis more difficult, aside from parking the vehicle in the
plates and the criminals are rarely caught. The second,garage ( not always possible with vans and 4 X 4 s )
most recent offense is the theft of vehicle catalyticthe only other thing you can do is have the nuts which
converters. The booming economy is the far east issecure the cat in place welded which will make
causing shortage of many things, the latest beingremoval more noisy. Instead of being able to use
platinum, it is currently worth twice the price of gold.spanners the thief will have to cut the pipe to remove
Catalytic converters use platinum amongst otherthe converter. One wonders what will be next target, it
precious metals to filter out toxic gases from exhaustis perhaps surprising that tires have not rocketed in
fumes and so a black market for stolen cats hasprice off the back of oil prices making them a stealable
appeared. There seems to be hot spots around theitem.