Is there a website where you can type in a registration number to see if a car is reported as stolen ?
Website for Stolen cars ?
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05-04-09 11:50There is a website where you can enter details of stolen vehicles. It is www.twoc.co.uk.
The web address represents "Taking Without Consent", but it is shown as being up for sale. -
05-04-09 13:15I found this one: http://www.ukstolencars.co.uk/
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06-04-09 07:34It's great to finally have something like that. My friend's car got stolen and if he had known that website before it would have been probably more successful to find his car.
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04-05-09 14:21
I run the website, it is for sale, but this does not affect the running of the site, It is still up and running and getting a lareg hit rate every year -
05-05-09 17:02
Some time before your post, I put the hit-and-run car in the checkitfree website, and I received an email to say it is recorded as stolen.
I then tried it on www.twoc.co.uk and the result showed no activity related to this car.
So I do not know what to think. This morning, I telephoned Thames Valley police and they said there had been no developments.
Much to my dismay, I am afraid that those who have already said that he won't be caught are very probably correct. It's now a case of getting my vehicle repaired and moving on. Fortunately, it will "fully recover" unblemished. Ha, ha!
Regards, Snowball. -
06-05-09 08:25The twoc.co.uk website is run entirely by volunteers and relies on people posting the information. If it is not listed by the person who had it stolen it will not be on TWOC. TWOC does not get its data from the POLICE or any other agency, hence it being FREE.
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06-05-09 09:18
In discussion this morning with the company dealing with uninsured losses, I learned that they have to pay a fee to the police for the provision of any data such as registered keeper details.
A rather mercenary attitude to the combat of crime.
I wonder what the police stance would be, if they believed a member of the public held information about a person they suspected of criminal activities, and that member subjected any disclosure to a fee? -
06-05-09 09:25Snowball, that is the Data Protection Act for you. Although an administrative fee is not compulsory. When it was introduced, anyone phoning from a motorway emergency box, who claimed AA membership, had to be attended by AA because AA were not allowed to tell the Police that a person was not a member.
