by Tom Walsh
The introduction of the Caravan Theft Alerts system has been deemed as instrumental in helping to recover a series of stolen caravans in the Lincolnshire area.
Nigel Coppen, client services director at Club Care Insurance and Caravan Theft Alerts, has praised the system which was only launched in October 2013.
It was originally set up to provide the wider caravanning community with a central system that will help to locate tourers when they had been stolen but it has also been instrumental in helping the police with their inquiries.
Mr Coppen wrote in a guest blog on the Club Car Insurance website that the system was used by officers in Lincolnshire to recover three stolen caravans in the region.
The tourers had not been listed as stolen on the Police National Computer (PNC) but were able to be recovered thanks to Caravan Theft Alerts.
Tim Booth, leisure vehicles officer at the Association of Chief Police Officers’ Vehicle Crime Intelligence division, said: “Thanks to the industry working together, with Caravan Theft Alerts taking the notification and the CRiS database being kept up to date, these were essential elements in the recovery of these caravans.”
