Foundation for Tackling Vehicle Crime publicprivate partnership

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Foundation for Tackling Vehicle
Crimepublic-private partnership

• Ton van der Lee
• Coordinator
• Brussels, November 27, 2008

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Reasons for involvement
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Content

• About AVc
• The AVc program
• Some examples of how we set up projects
• Public-private information exchange
• International information exchange
• LIV operational support

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Foundation for tackling vehicle crime (AVc)

• Board
• Public
• Min. of Justice
• Dep. of Road Transport
• Min. of Transport
• Police
• Public prosecution

• Private
• Association of Dutch Insurers
• Dutch car branch
• RAI and Bovag
• ANWB (Dutch AA)
• Dutch Employers Association on Transport and
  Logistics (TLN)

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Program bureau
director
16 projects together with all partners
4 project managers
2 secretaries
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Program

• Three year program against
• Theft of cars
• Theft of all other vehicles
• Theft of bicycles, cargo, heavy equipment
• Theft out of cars
• Theft of boats

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Results 2000-2007

• Cars minus 45 theft in 6 years (25.187 ? 13.844
  per 7 mio car park)
• Trucks 7
• Light business vehicles -31
• Motorcycles 4
• Overall -39
• Total thefts of 32.346 in 2000
• Total thefts of 19.679 in 2005

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THE WAY WE WORKexample a. Theft of cars out of
showrooms (1)
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Theft of cars out of showrooms (2)

• Step 1 define the problem 600 stolen cars
  per year
• Step 2 set up a working group of relevant
  parties involved. In this case
• - car dealers association
• - police
• - insurer
• - project leader of AVc

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Theft of cars out of showrooms (3)

• Step 3 analyze the problem modus operandi
• Step 4 solutions for the problem
• - risk management in general
• - no keys in the cars anymore
• - physical thresholds
• - pre-employment screening
• - etc., etc.

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Theft of cars out of showrooms (4)

• Step 5 end report to board of AVc
  acceptance of proposals
• Step 6 implementation of the solutions in
  each participating organization. In
  this case
• insurance policy terms
• No keys in the car in a showroom
• Store them in a secure place
• Proper physical thresholds around the garage
  (fence, cameras, etc.)

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Theft of cars out of showrooms (5)

• Step 6 (continued)
• Dealers associations provide a booklet with
  risk management solutions for dealers
• Police crime prevention contacts with dealers in
  the cities
• AVc publications on websites, in articles, etc.

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Results showroom theft

• In 2 years time decline of
• thefts from 600 ? 100 per year (mostly
• expensive cars)

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example b. Implementing Tracking Tracing (1)

• Signal (1998) A new technique will enter the
  market T T
• Question Can we use it and if so what
  must be done to have the
  maximum effect ?
• Answer Yes, it can help in tracing a
  stolen vehicle (even cross
  border) and perhaps also preventive.

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Implementing Tracking Tracing (2)

• Step 1set up a working group to create the
  right conditions
• Step 2define the participants. In this case
• Police
• Insurers
• Certification institute for crime prevention
  tools
• Dealers of the T T systems
• Private alarm centers
• AVc

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Implementing Tracking Tracing (3)

• Step 3 Work out the optimum
• Systems must be reliable and checked
• Insurers should demand the use of these systems
• Police has to react on a theft signal
• There should be an international way of handling
  theft signals

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Implementing Tracking Tracing (5)
Step 4 ensure reliability of the systems?pilot
to test them
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Implementing Tracking Tracing (6)

• Step 5 act on short comings (dealers of the
  systems)
• Step 6 create a set of testing parameters for
  the systems (common work within the
  wg)
• Step 7 set up a certification procedure for
  auditing
• TT systems themselves
• The way they are build in the vehicles
• Companies which do the appliance work
• Step 8 get approval of the AVc-board
• Step 9 implement it
• Step 10 measure the results

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Results T T

• Certification and testing demands implemented
• Every single party in the chain instructed
• Written promise of the chiefs of police to act on
  TT theft signals
• Demands in insurers policies for TT in a car
  worth more than 70.000,-
• International co-operation via police-lines,
  private alarm centre lines and WG TC 278/14 of
  the EU
• 95 retrieval of stolen vehicles
• Growing market
• Everybody is happy

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Tracking Tracing(4)
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Procedures on headlines
Germany
Netherlands
Border
Client data
NL- PAC
Ger.- PAC
Client data
Client data
Request
NL- Police
D- Police
NSIS
NSIS
Exchange information in Schengen Info System
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Public-private information exchange
Public
Private
vehicle register
VAR
A87
A86
A87
A86
A87
A86
acknowledged private investigation bureaus
insurance company/ agency
police
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L.I.V.(The National Vehicle Crime Information
Centre)

• Operational co-operation public private
• National police employees
• Registration authority employees
• Insurers employees

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L.I.V.

• In one office (20 people)
• Each with his own databases / organization
• Exchange of information based on cases
• Knowledge center and assistance
• National and international

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Results LIV

• Experienced assistance for all partners
• Enrichment of investigation information
• More arrests
• More retrieved cars, 600 per year (national and
  international)
• Less claims costs for insurers
• Short communication lines (national and
  international)

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Co-operation Inspection Centers RDW?Police

• Repaired strongly damaged cars
• Imported second hand cars
• If something is wrong with the identity
• (VIN)?police is called Police starts
  investigation
• Results over 600 hits per year

Inspection Centre RDW
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Key solutions against car theft

• Close co-operation in each country between
  Registration Authority police insurers and
  others
• Strict registration and monitoring of thefts
• Preventions strategies for both insurers, car
  branches and consumers
• National plan
• Use of all databases and/or systems for car theft
• Schengen
• Interpol
• Eucaris
• Dedicated communication and co-operation with
  other countries

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International model information exchange
Holland
Belgium
Police
Police
Bilateral SIS (Schengen) Interpol ASF
Registration authority
Registration authority
Information exchange
(Eucaris)
Insurers organization
Insurers organization
Private communication
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Key solutions against theft of parts (1)

• WOVM (Whole Of Vehicle Marking)
• VIN-based parts marking in the whole of Europe
• EU Committee for WOVM existence
• Micro dotting of parts

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Key solutions against theft of parts (2)

• 5. Draft WOVM-paper ready
• 6. Interested countries UK-Sweden-Belgium-Holland
  -Germany(BKA)-Austria
• 7. Plead to European Commission to implement a
  demand for VIN-based WOVM for the whole of Europe

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Knowledge of other EU projects

• Eucaris
• Contactpoints Vehicle Crime (Council Decision
  2004/919/EC on tackling vehicle crime with cross
  border implications)
• TC 278/WG 14
• MoU programme
• Set up of secure parking areas for trucks with
  support of the EC (Setpos/Label)

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For information you can contact us
Foundation for Tackling Vehicle
Crime Address P.O.box 200 3870 CE
HOEVELAKEN The Netherlands Tel. [phone]
200 Fax. [phone] E-mail
secretariaat_at_stavc.nl Website www.stavc.nl