Friday 29th October 2004

Company drivers to blame for crime increase

Survey finds fleet drivers don't protect their cars

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Company car drivers are keeping car thieves in business, according to the annual Autoglass car crime report. With car crime costing us a billion pounds annually -- up 40 per cent on last year -- fleet drivers are among the hardest hit.

The reason? They don't care, and leave laptops and other valuable lying about, with the result that soon after parking, there's a good chance of the car being broken into -- one in four (29 per cent) of fleet vehicles attacked are broken into with an hour of parking. The number of fleet victims having laptops stolen has increased over the past year from 8 per cent to 24 per cent. And apparently, they've given up either protecting their cars with alarms (27 per cent) and 45 per cent of those attacked don't bother reporting the event to the police. Nine out of ten fleet drivers surveyed said they didn't expect anyone to be charged.

[Rob_the_Sparky]

The police don't care so why report it. All it gets you is a crime number and some paperwork anyway.

[oppressed mass]

COMPANY DRIVERS TO BLAME FOR CRIME INCREASE

FFS...thats a nice spin...on the same logic

Are people who wear jewellery to blame for increase in muggings?

Are people who dress 'sexily' to blame for increases in sexual assaults?

Maybe the headline 'THEIVES TO BLAME FOR CRIME INCREASE' seemed to be too much like stating the bleeding obvious!

[shadowninja]

The police dont care, the drivers dont care, nobody's replied to your message. I think you're the only one who cares!


edit: bugger, someone replied

>> Edited by shadowninja on Friday 29th October 13:03