This new three-part series examines the changing face of car theft. No-nonsense, not over-hyped and with a lack of sensational footage, it does what it says on the tin.
The following preview is courtesy of BBC:
Criminals have been stealing our cars for the past 50 years. They used to be teenage yobs, hot-wiring vehicles and driving them into the ground before setting them alight and leaving them burning as wrecks on the edge of town. But now, as this new three-part series shows, car crime has become a sophisticated business stretching across continents and costing the country tens of millions of pounds.
With exclusive access to specialist police squads around the country, Cars, Cops and Criminals shows how officers are using increasingly sophisticated methods to catch the criminals, talks to people who've suffered vehicle theft and number plate cloning, and reveals the best ways to prevent you from becoming a victim.
The first episode, Big Business, follows the police as they track down the organised crime networks making millions shipping stolen cars abroad, and reveals how gangs steal identities to carry out the growing crime of Vehicle Insurance Fraud.
Up to 20,000 luxury cars are stolen from Britain's streets every year and illegally exported by criminal gangs in a multi-million pound business. Cyprus is one of the biggest destinations for these cars. It's an attractive market for UK car criminals as they drive on the same side of the road. Big Business accompanies teams from the Metropolitan Police's Stolen Vehicle Unit as they head to the island to track down stolen cars and teach the Cypriot police how to identify which cars have been illegally exported.
Criminals go to any lengths when they want to steal a car to order and they're using increasingly violent methods, especially as the latest technology makes theft much more difficult. In the car-crime hotspot of London's South Kensington, new mum Lucy Edie became a victim, even though her 4x4 was fitted with latest immobiliser and alarm. She tells the programme how the only way the thieves who had targeted her car could get their hands on it was by driving alongside her and holding a gun to her head. She managed to escape unhurt, but other victims have not been so lucky...
"That means, his original statement about unclamping her car when she raised the funds, was a lie!"
It wasn't a lie at all. The girl was allowed her car back when the funds had cleared. The reason why the police told her they would inpound her car was because they had no recieved the funds and you can't expect them to sit and wait for hours and hours wasting police time for somebody to pay up.
Ofcourse there will be some corruption in the police force - it's a HUGE organisation with over 140,000 officers, but corruption is not as wide spread as you think.
If you think our police are corrupt, try going to Africa, Asia, etc. and look at their police and compare them to the UK.
We have one of the best police forces in the UK yet people like you don't seem to appreciate them and blame them for everything.
July 16th - 9:32pmU.N.Owen said...
In my opinion, Cars, Cops and Criminals, is a show that prooves police officers can bend and change the Laws as they see fit. Just watch the 16/July/2008 show on BBC1, about the girl who was pulled over for speeding. Granted she shouldn't have in the first place, but in one scene an officer clamped her car & said that if she can raise the money there & then, that they would unclamp her car. She tried to pay in cash but another officer said that they can't accept it. Why not? It's legal tender. Then the girl finally arranged to pay by other means, at which point the original officer said they were inpounding her car. That means, his original statement about unclamping her car when she raised the funds, was a lie! Hence, it prooves police officers make the rules as they go along. There are MANY more examples like this one, some even more serious like breaking the Data Protection Act & so on, but I know the police force will forever stay corrupt.
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