DRIVING DOWN VEHICLE THEFT Thinking nationallyActing locally

1
DRIVING DOWN VEHICLE THEFT Thinking
nationallyActing locally

• Ray Carroll
• Executive Director, NMVTRC

www.carsafe.com.au
2
Overview of Vehicle Theft
3
How big is Professional Theft?
4
How big is Professional Theft?
5
Priority Areas

• Completion of the national information grid
• Immobilising the existing fleet
• Vehicle and component identification
• Youth programs

6
Preventing Professional Theft

• Vehicle and component identification
• Self voiding compliance labels
• Written off vehicle registers
• National Vehicle and Driver Information System
  (NEVDIS)

7
Preventing Professional Theft

• Consumer access to vehicle information
• Investigative responses

8
Preventing Opportunistic Theft

• Australian Design Rule for engine immobilisers
• Immobilising the fleet
• Youth programs

9
Key Actions Car Manufacturers

• Continuous improvement in vehicle security
  systems
• Secure compliance labels
• Tamper-resistant and counterfeit protected
• Bar coded
• Easily distinguishable from non-genuine product
• Applied front and rear
• Secure identification of key components
• Based on VIN as primary identifiers
• Tamper-resistant and counterfeit protected
• Easily applied
• Secure supply chain
• (Genuine and non-genuine parts)

10
Key Actions Car Buyers

• Assess level of protection supplied by vehicle
  manufacturers in selecting vehicle of choice
• Demand higher levels of security from vehicle
  manufacturers
• Demand insurance incentives for secure vehicles
• Accept responsibility for securing property

11
Key Actions Insurers

• Review insurance practices
• Higher excesses for most at-risk vehicles (to
  assert pressure on manufacturers via consumers)
• Disposal of written-off vehicles to legitimate
  repairers
• Impacts of agreed value policies on fraud

12
Key Actions Registration Agencies

• Stick to POI and entitlement to register
  protocols
• All jurisdictions connected to NEVDIS by end 2001
• Nationally consistent management of written-off
  vehicles
• identifiers of severely damaged vehicles
  ineligible for future registration
• targeted high level inspections for other high
  risk write-offs
• Consumer access to non-personal vehicle status
  information

13
Key Actions Police

• Improved intelligence
• Better liaison with insurers
• National collation and analysis of strategic and
  tactical information
• Enhanced investigative skills
• Greater emphasis on transferring expertise
• More formal approach to theft investigation
  training
• Effective use of informal networks
• Commitment to adequately resource investigations

14
National Motor Vehicle Theft Reduction Council