{"id":2920,"date":"2011-05-09T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=2920"},"modified":"2015-05-27T16:03:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T15:03:07","slug":"did-you-know-that-more-than-12000-number-plates-have-been-stolen-within-the-last-3yrs%e2%80%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/2011\/05\/did-you-know-that-more-than-12000-number-plates-have-been-stolen-within-the-last-3yrs%e2%80%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know that more than 12,000 number plates have been stolen within the last 3yrs\u203c"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Free-Anti-Theft.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2921\" title=\"Free Anti Theft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Free-Anti-Theft-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Number plates have been stolen from more than 12,000 vehicles across the West Midlands in the last three years, new figures show. Stolen plates are often used on vehicles by criminals who do not want to be caught when committing a crime such as stealing fuel or if they want to disguise a stolen car.<\/p>\n<p>Figures released by West Midlands Police under the Freedom of Information Act show the following amount of number plates were stolen:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>3890 in 2008\/2009<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>3718 in 2009\/2010<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>4613 in 2010\/2011<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>TOTAL: 12347<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Police have warned motorists to secure their number plates with anti-theft screws, which<a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\"> Speedyreg<\/a> are offering Free of Charge for anyone that order a set of number plates from them.<\/p>\n<p>When your number plate is stolen, it will cost you \u00a320 to replace it, which makes it worthwhile to use antitheft screws. It is also an offence to display the wrong vehicle registration mark on a vehicle, with a maximum penalty of \u00a31,000.<\/p>\n<p>Have you been a victim of number plate theft?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number plates have been stolen from more than 12,000 vehicles across the West Midlands in the last three years, new figures show. Stolen plates are often used on vehicles by criminals who do not want to be caught when committing a crime such as stealing fuel or if they want to disguise a stolen car. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[136],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2920"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10753,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions\/10753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}