Global Telemetrics has had a kick start to the year, with £3.4m worth of vehicles recovered during January alone. 

At this rate, we are projected to recover over £40m worth of vehicles by year-end 2023, compared with the £38.6m worth of vehicles we recovered in 2022.

January facts and figures

As expected, Land Rover and Range Rover continue to hold the top spot as the most stolen vehicles, making up for 50% of all recoveries in January. Luckily our Stolen Vehicle Recovery (SVR) teams are always ready to spring to action in these instances, with our quickest recovery of the month at 19 minutes, for a Range Rover Sport.

Other notable vehicles recovered this month include a BMW M5, BMW M4, two Audi Q7s, a Mercedes GLC, a Porsche 911 Turbo, a Lamborghini Huracan, and a Ford Ranger Wildtrak.

We have also seen an increase in Lexus RX 450H thefts, on vehicles tracked by Global Telemetrics, as well as across social media platforms with many cases being caught on CCTV footage. 

9% of recoveries this month were motorhomes, compared with 3% last month, highlighting how much more of a target these vehicles are becoming. Recently Global Telemetrics released a short awareness film to highlight Motorhome and Caravan theft, which can be viewed below.

As our customers know, it isn’t cars alone that we recover at Global Telemetrics, and this month we recovered a John Deere 855D. Hapless thieves attempted to outrun our teams and the police and made a last ditch attempt to hide the vehicle. Nevertheless, the team was successful and the vehicle was reunited with its owner. 

In all vehicle theft cases, our Secure Control Centre will notify our Repatriations Team of a stolen vehicle’s moving location, who will then work with the police to locate and track down the vehicle before moving to a secure site. To see this process in motion, watch this video

London remains a high-risk area, with 26% of all recoveries in London this January.

The West Midlands are close behind, representing 15% of recoveries in the country. Essex saw 12% of recoveries. 

On the rise, are recoveries in Glasgow, accounting for 6% of all recoveries in January. Last January, we recovered no vehicles at all in Glasgow. Intelligence from our Repatriations Team indicates that there has been an increase of criminal gangs in Glasgow, which is leading to a massive rise of vehicle theft in the city.

Most interesting case

This month, we had an extremely unusual case, whereby our customer’s vehicle was stolen twice in 24 hours! First, the car was stolen in the early hours of the morning. Once our team had located and returned the vehicle back to its owner, it was later stolen again that following evening. The second recovery was achieved in just 40 minutes. To find out more about this theft, click here. 

Looking forward

As we did in 2022, we will continue to track hotspots for thefts throughout the year, so that our customers can remain equipped and aware of the risks out there. 

Whilst we crawl through the final weeks of winter, our customers are advised not to leave their car unattended during de-icing. In January alone, 4 instances of stolen vehicles were recorded by the police, for this very reason in just one weekend. 

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