Monday 27th January 2003

Nicked... we'll 'ave that

Plod keeps 5 series confiscated in drugs raid

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[p7ulg]

Not as good as Crocketts Daytona Spider ( I know it was'nt a real on) in Miami vice! Thats how that car was supposidly acquired, was'nt it.

[xsaravtr]

MMMmm... Why can't they ask the DVLA, surely there must be a keeper registered for it... Methinks they aren't trying too hard... I bet the ad in the paper was tiny...

[danh]

Don't see how it saves tax payers money, we are all paying for it through our insurance policies.

[trefor]

I wonder if they'd have kept it if it were a Daewoo Leganza which would probably have been more 'plain clothes CID style' than a fat beemer IYKWIM.

[p7ulg]

They did say it was'nt suitable for undercover work! Don't know how they came to that conclusion.Probably more drug dealers drive BMs than Daewoos.

[icamm]

Yep, can't have tried too hard. Did they ask the insurance companies? DVLA? What if the car wasn't from Bristol?

Now if the druggie had bought it himself with his ill-gotten gains then I can see them keeping the "proceeds" of a crime. If it was already a stolen vehicle then it belongs to some insurance company somewhere.

[corozin]

Well yeah... even if the plates are false, there is also the VIN plate, chassis number, engine number.

If these have ALL been ground off then surely the car cannot be legal for road use, and the Police cannot re-register it because... no numbers!

If the numbers are present, then even if DVLA are incapable, an enquiry at BMW-UK would probably bring up the service record... they could probably trace the place it was last MOT'd and locate the owner from the invoice records...

Hell, I don't even watch Taggart...

John

[jmorgan]

Probably did it to save money to spend on the chopper to help catch people enjoying a weekend of "making progress"