Vehicle Crime in England and Wales: Analysis and Statistical Review

Crime Survey of
England and Wales

Table of Contents
1. Rational of selected crime............................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Analysis of Vehicle crime...........................................................................................................3
Statistical analysis of auto theft in UK........................................................................................4
What us the highest and lowest rate of vehicle crime in UK .....................................................4
Comparison between vehicle thefts as recorded by police statistics and by victimisation
surveys in England and Wales (left) and the US (right)...........................................................10
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................11
REFRENCES ................................................................................................................................12

1. Rational of selected crime
The following report is going to focus on the vehicle crimes which are being reported in
the crime survey of England and Wales for 2017 and 2018. The vehicle crimes has been
addressed as the acts of theft ad trafficking of the vehicles in the country. The illicit trade with
respect to the spare parts of vehicle are also included in the category of the vehicle crime.
Moreover, for prepared crook groups, the acquisition, cargo and alternate of stolen cars is a low-
danger manner to make profits. Stolen cars are regularly trafficked for you to finance and
perform different crook activities, starting from drug trafficking, fingers dealing, humans
smuggling and global terrorism. Additionally, the illicit marketplace in spare components is a
profitable supply of earnings for crook corporations and gives them many realistic uses. Not best
does this phenomenon have a economic effect at the industry, however it additionally places
drivers in hazard as illicit spare components are possibly to fall beneath identified protection
standards. In recent years it has been marked out that use of internet has increased over resale of
vehicle components which makes issue developed and lead over enhancing legal structure across
the world. In an country like United Kingdom around 48,500 vehicles has been stolen which
were recorded by police within the year 2020. This has been presented by Driver and Vehicle
Licensing Agency and they marked out that most stolen vehicles are Ford Fiesta and Vauxhall
Corsa since they are having better speed with performance. The report is based over various
aspects related to vehicle crime within UK. Also analysis of vehicle crime is done more
effectively which makes more relevancy provided to the topic. Vehicle crime has been discussed
in relation to United Kingdom.
MAIN BODY
Analysis of Vehicle crime
Ford Fiesta: 3,392 Stolen Range Rover: 2,881 Stolen, VW Golf: 1,975 Stolen, Ford
Focus: 1,587 Stolen, BMW 3-Series: 1,435 Stolen, Vauxhall Astra: 1,126 Stolen, Land Rover
Discovery: 900 Stolen, Mercedes E-Class: 766 Stolen, BMW 5-Series: 678 Stolen, Nissan
Qashqai: 655 Stolen, Ford Kuga: 620 Stolen, BMW X5: 551 Stolen, Fiat / Abarth 500: 358
Stolen, Mercedes GLC: 342 Stolen, Audi A6: 268 Stolen. The mentioned figures of car models
explains about the most commonly stole cars within UK(Mayer, 2019). This shows that vehicle

crime has increased within past few years which has lead over increase in crime like theft, chain
snatching and kidnapping. As stolen cars are used for committing crime within Unite Kingdom
and trough this crime rate has increased within UK which made society suffer and its basic
structure get affected. The data of stolen cars shows that on an average 133 cars are stolen every
day in Britain and 933 cars are stolen per week. Also motor thefts are still as high even during
the time of pandemic and its has been observed by DVLA that 58,642 motors has been stolen
from the owners in 2019 which is five time higher then last year.
Statistical analysis of auto theft in UK
What us the highest and lowest rate of vehicle crime in UK
This figure shows that overall vehicle crime in England and Wales has decreased by
8.7% over last few years dispute of its increase. In the period of five years from 365,037 to