Diagnostic Disorder Motor cars have been on our UK roads since 1894. The advent of the motor car was the dawn of a new era in personal mobility, initially for the lucky minority. With any new technology or fashionable commodity, however, comes an associated underworld of criminality waiting to benefit from dishonestly appropriating or profiteering… Read More
PRADO Documents
“The Council of the European Union – Public Register Of Authentic Identity And Travel Documents Online” According to the PRADO website the public register is, “a multi-lingual site for disseminating information on security features of authentic identity and travel documents to the public.” The PRADO website contains images and summary information on some of the… Read More
Locating Stolen Plant
Wireless GSM locates stolen plant . October 2011 Wireless GSM Continuous tracking by a combination of GPRS, GSM and RF is a powerful weapon in the fight against crime, as James Pringle explains. More than £1m-worth of plant machinery is stolen every day in the UK, causing severe disruption to the industry. The consequences can… Read More
The Shipping Process

Weaknesses in The Shipping Process & Organised Vehicle Thefts in UK . At the European Branch of the International Association of Auto-Theft Investigators (IAATI) Annual Training Seminar which was held in Poland in October 2010, Detective Constable Vince Wise gave a presentation entitled – Weaknesses in The Shipping Process & Organised Vehicle Thefts in UK…. Read More
IAATI European Conference

Wroclaw – Poland – 27th To 29th October 2010 The European Branch of the International Association of Auto-Theft Investigators held their Annual Training Seminar at the Sofitel Hotel, Wroclaw Old Town, Poland between 27th and 29th October 2010. As a representative of the United Kingdom Branch of IAATI, I had the pleasure to attend, and… Read More
IAATI 58th Annual Training Seminar

Orlando Florida 22nd to 27th August 2010 I’ve always found it very difficult to consider attending one of the US International Seminars. August can be difficult month and there has always been the perception that US conferences were US orientated and their content too insular and aimed purely at North American issues. Well I went… Read More
Training in Pakistan

My relationship with Pakistan goes back many years. It started in 1992 when I was tasked with trying to locate a stolen Land Rover Discovery which the owners, a UK Finance Company, had been advised had been found in Pakistan. We eventually managed to locate it but the vehicle had been confiscated by Pakistan Customs… Read More
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