On 23/04/2017 21:25, TMS320 wrote:

On 23/04/17 17:43, JNugent wrote:

Though you obviously didn't know it, car-theft is actually rare in
the the UK and countries with similar systems. It happens, but it
isn't at all common.

You're rather naive if you think plates have much to do with it.


It is not common because cars have had electronic keys for the last 20
years and can't be hot wired; the key (or code) has to be obtained first.

Nothing whatever to do with it.

What is usually (inaccurately) termed a "stolen" car has not been stolen
at all, because "steal" has a specific meaning in law which is not
satisfied by joyrising, etc..

That's why there is an offence of "taking away without the owner's
consent" - it's because the essential elements of the crime of theft do
not exist in such cases and therefore cannot be proven.

I had two cars TWOCd in the 1970s and got them both back when notified
by the police (guess how they traced me?).

If TWOCing has been reduced by better security devices, that's great,
but reducing TWOC offences is not the same thing as reducing the number
of thefts.




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