The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) today released a report on motorcycle thefts in the United States for 2016. A total of 46,467 motorcycles were reported stolen in 2016 compared with 45,555 reported stolen in 2015—an increase of 2 percent.
Although 2016 delivered another slight increase in motorcycle thefts, motorcycle thefts are down considerably since 2006. They have dropped from 66,774 in 2006 to 46,467 in 2016—a decline…
Copies of selected PowerPoint presentations from the recent Australian Vehicle Crime Conference are now available for download. This conference was a jointly hosted conference between the Australasian Branch of IAATI, the National Motor Vehicle Theft Reduction Council (NMVTRC) and Victoria Police and held on 4-6 April, 2017 in Melbourne Australia. To download selected presentations please follow the link…
If you were to have your Jeep Renegade key stolen, you might as well start looking for a new car or at least that is what the dealer told one Jeep Renegade owner after he reported that his key was…
BIDWELL, Ohio (WSAZ) -- A thief broke into a business in Gallia County early Monday morning and not only stole some heavy machinery, but used it as the get-a-way vehicle.A John Deere tractor was stolen from Bridgeport Equipment & Tool in Bidwell.
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Law enforcement officials at the Port of Los Angeles have uncovered a major organized criminal ring responsible for the theft and attempted exportation of over two million dollars worth of high end…
According to the Metropolitan Police, the eight thieves broke into residential homes at night to steal car keys, which were then used to steal the victims’ high-value cars from outside their…
Last week the Dutch police issued 248 fines in the course of 3 days of unobtrusive traffic checks on the A7 motorway at the junction by Joure near Groningen. As many as 214 of these drivers, including 65 truck drivers, were fined for using their mobile phone at the…
An IBM security researcher has warned that previous car owners can easily maintain data connections to their cars after they have been sold, allowing them to monitor the new owners and carry out remote control functions such as locking and unlocking the car doors.
Charles Henderson, the leader of X-Force Red, IBM’s security testing group, stumbled across the phenomenon by chance when selling his car. He noticed that not only did he have…
South Africa loses over R8.5-billion to vehicle theft and hijacking. Of the vehicles stolen‚ 57% are taken across the border‚ 36% filter back into South Africa as cloned vehicles and the rest land in chop shops.
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Thieves in central England stole two trailer loads of new engines from the Jaguar Land Rover plant in Solihull, England, this…