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The Vehicle Theft Protection Program was launched in late June 2007 by NICB, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to stopping vehicle theft and insurance fraud, and LoJack Corporation, a company that provides tracking and recovery systems for stolen mobile assets. [1]
Police said the growing number of vehicles featuring keyless entry technology was a contributing factor to a rising number of stolen vehicles. In the United States and Australia, a design flaw allowing USB cables to substitute for car keys led to sharp increases in the thefts of affected Kia and Hyundai vehicles in 2022. [ 15 ]
Vehicle recovery is the recovery of any vehicle to another place, generally speaking with a commercial vehicle known as a recovery vehicle, tow truck or spectacle lift. Recovery can take the form of general recovery, normally of broken down vehicles, or a Statutory Recovery at the request of the police using police powers, conferred in the ...
A driver who collided head-on with a police motorcycle during a pursuit has been jailed for four years. Marvin Geddes, 33, crashed at speed into the officer in Southampton in July 2024, police said.
Of the 349 bikes stolen in Bellingham last year, 295 weren’t recovered by the police. Stendahl doesn’t go out of his way to track down stolen bikes, but says he’ll recover them when the ...
NEW CASTLE, Ind. — As a result of what a police officer viewed as his reckless operation of a motorcycle, a New Castle man faces five criminal charges, four of them felonies.
VIN etching can also increase the odds of recovery of a stolen car by police. [ 3 ] VIN etching is recommended by police departments, insurance agencies, and government automobile/vehicle theft prevention agencies [ 4 ] [ 5 ] This service is sometimes offered free of charge at sponsored events.
Civil recovery is the method in some legal systems employed to recover the proceeds of crime, instead of, or in addition to, criminal court proceedings. [1]Many retailers, or agents acting on their behalf, utilize civil recovery to recover the value of property (including intellectual property) obtained through unlawful conduct (i.e. theft, burglary, larceny, fraud etc.).