Fewer than half of all stolen cars over the last 10 years have been recovered by police. A total of 522,214 vehicles were logged as stolen across the UK between 2009 and 2018, yet just 236,636 were recovered.
This equates to an average nationwide recovery rate of 45.32%, and with figures unavailable for 20 of the country’s 45 police forces, the real number could be even more concerning.
Auto Express magazine made a series of Freedom of Information requests to UK police forces. The data...
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