Tackling Vehicle Crime “The benefit of co-operation” A matter of public and private interest

1. Tackling Vehicle Crime “The benefit of co-operation” A matter of public and private interest Guus Wesselink director AVc (Foundation for Tackling Vehicle Crime) April 21, 2005 IAATI - UK

2. The Netherlands • National Platform for Crime control Mission: Reducing crime in close co-operation Chair: Minister of justice / Minister of Interior Co-chair: President of employees association 20 organizations like departments, police, public prosecution, car branch, banks, insurers, industry

3. Board: Public Min. of Justice (Min. of the Interior ) Dep. of Road Transport Min. of Transport Police Public prosecution Foundation for tackling vehicle crime (AVc) Private • Association of Dutch Insurers • Dutch car branch: RAI and Bovag • ANWB (Dutch AA) • Annual financial contribution of € 91.000

4. Programme bureau 45 projects together with all partners director 3 project managers 2 secretaries

5. Vehicle theft rates Stolen matriculated vehicles 1995 : 32.802 2002 : 30.785 2003 : 25.608 2004 : 22.989 – 16.000 cars Loss for insurers 1995 : € 250 million 2004 approx. : € 150 million Matriculated vehicle park Netherlands 2004 : 8 million Average theft risk cars 2004 : 0,24 % Recovery stolen cars 2004 : 66 %

6. Vehicles • Matriculated vehicles 0,29 % • Mopeds and scooters 3 % • Plant ? % • Bicycles 5 % 800.000 thefts/year! Fleet: 17 mio

7. Projects on: • Improving legislation, insurance policies, enforcement rules of registration authority • Exchange of information between all partners • Statistics • Improving identity checks on cars • Improving co-operation between all partners • Technical prevention (Tracking & Tracing) • Improving international co-operation • Exchange of experiences • Damaged vehicles • Prevention within vehicle branch • Studies

8. So far for the policy matters Next: Public – Private – Partnership on the operational level

9. Combined public – private information desk Technical inspection centers RDW Police Type approval information RDW L.I.V. Insurance companies Vehicle registration RDW Road tax department Staff: 2-4 employees from each organization

10. LIV – main functions • Operational information exchange to and from co-operating parties • Skills for specialized document verification • Central point for exchange of information between NL and car manufacturers • All necessary actions after police report about recovery of stolen vehicles (national and international) • Central point for exchange of information with Europol and Interpol (beyond SIS and ASF) • Bird’s-eye view on on-going investigations

11. International activities International institutions: • EU, pillar 1 and pillar 3 • Interpol & Europol • CEA (insurers) Working group car theft International activities: • EU-Enfopol 85 document with manyRecommendations: first results in 2004/919/EC • Training of countries (Romania, Slovakia, etc.) • Contacts: IAATI, ESVA, NVMTRC Australia, BAC South-Africa, USA, etc.

12. Studies • Study on vehicle theft in 15 EU countries (AVc / Regioplan • Statistics • Proven good practices • National programmes • Organized car theft in the Netherlands (WODC 2005) www.stavc.nl

13. The Foundation for Tackling Vehicle crime P.O. Box 74707 1070 BS Amsterdam The Netherlands  + 31 20 549 79 31  + 31 20 549 79 35 @secretariaat@stavc.nl  www.stavc.nl