Police Stolen Vehicles website

[~SlideWays~]

This has gone live and I thought it might be a good idea to sticky a link on Toyspeed.

At first I thought it was 'the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff' but it looks like you can search engine numbers too which could be handy.

I searched for my old 200sx and yep, its still 'STOLEN'.

Anything to slow down car theft in NZ is a good thing right?

http://www.police.govt.nz/stolen/vehicles

[Dell'Orto]

Jesus, my first RX7 is still on that list!

Vehicle NH3857 is listed as being a Cream 1980 Mazda RX 7 Sports Car and was reported stolen 1998-10-14

[XSVWGN]

484 vehicles stolen in Wellington in the last 6 months!!!

[B1NZ]

JUDGEI Gold Holden COMMODORE 1986 Saloon 18/02/2012 Wellington

Wow, that car surely wont be hard to spot, It has been around for ages!

These stats make me feel better for selling the STi and owning a boring Primera

[Adoom]

How hard/expensive would it really be to equip all police cars with cameras and some software that recognises number plates and automatically searches that database for a match then alerts the officer to a possible stolen vehicle? Much better than relying on the officer to know of all the stolen cars or something that looks suspicious.
I realise that they would probably use the number plate recognition system for other things, that people may not like....

[iOnic]

That only works if the thieves are still driving the cars around (not very often this happens) AND they've left the car's plates on it (even less often). Most stolen cars in NZ are never seen again.