Stan Bezuidenhouit on Cape Talk Radio re Cloned Vehicles скачать в хорошем качестве

Stan Bezuidenhouit on Cape Talk Radio re Cloned Vehicles

On 19 January 2024 Stan Bezuidenmhout was interviewed on Cape Talk 567 AM Radio on the issue of cloned vehicles in South Africa. This comes after a driver traveling through Kenilworth in Cape Town during December last year could not believe his eyes when he spotted another vehicle identical to his, sporting the same registration number. The incident was reportedly published on a community traffic WhatsApp group. It happened on the corner of Carton and Loch roads, Kenilworth. However, the City’s traffic services spokesperson Kevin Jacobs told People’s Post that this incident had not been reported. Claremont police’s Vispol Commander Lt Col Marnus Fourie also said the incident had not been reported to police. However, the incident was shared on the Western Cape Stolen & Hijacked Vehicles Facebook group on Sunday 17 December. A group admin continued to comment on the post, saying “it happens . . . the syndicates are good at what they do, but they do from time to time cross the wrong police officers and, or in this case, the legit vehicle owner. The vehicle with the copied plates was indeed sought in a Kleinvlei [case].” Attempts to confirm any links to the possible Kleinvlei case could not be verified by the Western Cape police. Instead, the People’s Post was referred to Wynberg police for official confirmation of the incident. However, by the time of going to print no official confirmation by police was made. This is despite video footage of the incident showing police responding to the scene. Fraudulent license plate trends People’s Post also turned to the admin of the Western Cape Stolen & Hijacked Vehicles NPC Facebook group to learn more about this and similar number plate cloning trends across the province. According to its Director and CEO, who wished to remain anonymous as a safety precaution, duplicated or stolen number plates are often found and also used by various syndicates/crime participants. “Examples are vehicle thieves or ATM scammers etc. These syndicates often hire a legitimate vehicle from AVIS, put the duplicated/stolen plates on this vehicle, commit the crime spree, and return the vehicle. “It’s only through deep dive investigations that slight differences are picked up, like the placement of the license disk, the difference in the spacing on number plates, etc.” This trend is not necessarily area specific to Kenilworth, he added, saying this is seen across the Western Cape and the rest of the country. “Related trends are seen where vehicle owners often use an old number plate, previously registered to the vehicle, on their vehicle. Yet, it’s already allocated a new plate, disc, etc. So they would place the correct disc on the vehicle but continue driving with old plates.” He explained that this is done to avoid traffic camera fines, for example, as the old plate is then registered or used on another vehicle. “So the poor person driving this vehicle would get ‘love letters’ from the Traffic Department. These fines are often paid with the recipient not really checking the details to keep their record clean, meanwhile, it’s not even their vehicle actually committing the offense,” he added. This practice additionally causes major issues with stolen or hijacked vehicle cases, “as the CAS No is linked to the vehicle Registration No (the correct one) and not the old plate, often causing gaps if a vehicle is eventually found/recovered”. The Director also shared interesting insights from their group, citing 2023 statistics: 970 Vehicles sought 483 Vehicles recovered 116 Vehicles not circulated “ ‘Not circulated’ means that, between getting the information from the data source to us doing a Sought Poster, the vehicle owner never reported the matter [to police] and/or the vehicle was so quickly found that the owner didn’t even get to Saps... You’ll be shocked how many people don’t report their vehicles as stolen to Saps.” He adds this causes issues, “especially if found by partners (like Saps, traffic police etc.) because they would be standing down to a ‘reported’ vehicle, sometimes containing criminal suspects, and then there is no CAS no to exercise any arrests.”