Police don't give this enough attention - untaxed, uninsured, unroadworthy perhaps even un-qualified to drive - it's a much greater problem than someone driving at 35 in a 30 zone at 7am on a Sunday morning (for example) - time to ask the candidates standing for election as Police Commisioner what they will do about this matter (whoever they are!) - take a few cloned vehicles off the road and other crimes will fall too

Edited by Smileyman on 30/03/2016 at 21:59

I'm not particularly convinced by this figure of 1 in 12 vehicles. If it was really that high, everyone would know of many people who had received speeding or parking tickets for offences they didn't commit. I can only think of one person I know who has had this happen to him. His number plates were physically stolen off his car the day before and fitted to an identical model and colour of car which had presumably been stolen.

The article states that there are around 1.75 million cars stolen over the last ten years or so which have never been recovered and then assumes that all of these are running around on cloned plates.

That is a very big assumption - a far more logical explanation (which there is a fair bit of evidence for) is that these cars are either no longer in the country (a large number end up in places like Albania) or have been dismantled and sold on as spares.