Thieves are utilizing superior expertise to steal vehicles from driveways and streets – whereas the homeowners lie asleep in mattress.
Land Rovers have the doubtful honour of being essentially the most stolen automobile within the nation, with Driver and Car Licensing Company (DVLA) statistics revealing one in each hundred Land Rovers had been stolen within the yr ending March 2023.
Round 8,284 Land Rovers had been taken over that interval – out of the 896,948 licensed Land Rovers within the UK.
This meant the automobiles had been 3 times extra more likely to be stolen than the second hottest goal for thieves, the Mercedes-Benz.
Most of the automobiles are taken utilizing ‘relay assaults’ to entry parked automobiles.
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One piece of expertise, accessible on-line for round £1,300, permits criminals to entry and drive away in a stolen automobile in simply 90 seconds, the Solar studies.
Spates of those thefts have been reported throughout the nation in latest months, together with Teeside – which has seen a spate of crashes and different incidents involving the stolen automobiles.
Chatting with TeesideLive, a spokesperson from Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) mentioned: “Defending our shoppers from this degree of organised crime is our precedence. Now we have a staff of devoted consultants working intently with police and companions – our proactive method allows us to help legal investigations; spot rising tendencies earlier; and shortly decide and roll out measures that counter this criminality.
“One such answer contains UWB (extremely huge band) expertise – JLR had been the primary producer to combine this into our automobiles to stop ‘relay assaults’ (keyless). Our vehicles that includes this expertise have been independently verified by the Which? and the ADAC.
“Our manufacturing automobiles are geared up with industry-leading safety techniques, and automobiles are fitted with Safe Tracker automobile monitoring techniques – lately being rated by Thatcham Analysis as ‘superior’.
“We suggest shoppers use all accessible measures to guard their automobile, together with our ‘distant’ app to entry a collection of security measures reminiscent of automobile lock reminders, and ‘guardian mode’ which screens the automobile, offering an alert if there’s any unauthorised interplay.”
Following the spate of incidents in Teeside, police in that space urged motorists to take precautions to stop their automobiles being stolen.
These embrace preserving your automobile key/fob (and any spare) effectively away from the automobile when at house and contemplating shopping for a Faraday pouch – which blocks indicators – to your keys or fob.
Different prompt measures embrace reprogramming your keys if you’re shopping for a second hand automobile and all the time manually checking your doorways have locked earlier than leaving your automobile.
