“250% increase in theft of young cars in 3 years”

Posted on 16-09-2014 at 9:55 pm by CasperH – 8 Comments”

The theft of a young passenger cars increased by 250% in the past three years. This is mainly due to the fact that our legislation, the car thieves too easy.

A big problem is, according to the Insurance vehicle crime (VbV) that inbrekersgereedschap in the Netherlands very easy to obtain. A ban on the sale of (electronic) inbraakapparatuur and equipment for the copy of the car keys would be a huge help according to the VbV. The theft of particularly young cars, because the car thieves increasingly professional. Also, the thieves are becoming faster and more efficient in circumventing the security of cars.

In addition to help prevent vehicle theft, and autoonderdelendiefstal, there could also be more to be done to the opsporingskansen to increase. At this moment it is only 38% of the stolen cars were recovered. For example, by kentekenregistratiesystemen to use stolen cars much better and can be more rapidly detected. Measures of this sort encounter, however, a lot of protest in our country because of privacy laws.

Incidentally, it took the theft of cars overall though.

Source: Metro