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22/4/2009 at 9:19am
 Location: plymouth Devon
 Outfit: ACE SUPREME TWINSTAR 2008
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This is good news just wish more police forces did this!!

http://www.gallowaygazette.co.uk/news/Seven-stolen-caravans-discovered-in.5181365.jp



22/4/2009 at 10:20am
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As always with stories like this you wonder what the background is, 7 caravans worth £9000, as I read it, that means they were all old, or do they mean £9k each?

If the caravans were old they had probabley been stolen yrs ago & had been sold on thru several innocent 'owners'

I suppose checking 'vans bording ferries for Ireland is a welcome move, but this needs to be done all the time as a matter of course.

If the cops were serious about recovering stolen late model caravans they would blitz every 'unofficial campsite' in the country but unfotunately our PCs are too PC for this.

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22/4/2009 at 10:52am
 Location: Lanarkshire
 Outfit: Elddis Avante 482
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Good move.

I do think on the whole the police are simply too busy to put in time this would take countrywide.

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22/4/2009 at 2:21pm
 Location: Whitburn Scotland
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Certainly a step in the right direction. Hopefully there will be more of these in the future which could become another deterent for those involved in caravan crime. As more caravan are now Cris certificated it could be an option for the Police to have a link to the database to be able to check up on them countrywide with more efficiency, one possible idea is to have the car registration of the tow vehicle updated on cris and in that way it would tie cars and caravasn together, not as practical with those who tow with more than one cr but perhaps that is something that could be alloewd for. Or is that perhaps going too far in this big brother age.

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22/4/2009 at 4:08pm
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The simple answer, is to come in line with most other European countries & register caravans with the DVLA so they come with a V5, their own number plate & require an MOT(every 2 yrs in most countries)

Many new caravans cost more than new cars & yet in this country we rely on a private profit making organization to register them, with no compulstion for new owners to inform Cris.

To go after owners of older caravans at random in the hope it might turn up a few stolen ones yrs after the insurance has paid out for them seems to be missing the point.

The scum who nick large caravans only a few months old are still getting away scot free & yet it would be so easy to catch them or at least recover the caravans if only the police had the will to go after the real crimminals.



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