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Originally Posted by Triple-S
I had the same with my Volvo 164 a few years ago - stolen from a Council-rented lock-up nearby, and was told by a nice old lady who had my number and watched it all happen. I got an invaluable (!) crime number from the Police who told me they do nothing about car-theft..... However, we know where old cars go to be banger-raced and asked at the village garage. A truck-driver overheard and told us where he'd seen it behind a high hedge at a former battery-chicken place.
We went down an adjacent footpath and saw it there so told the Police - they didn't want to do anything about it UNTIL I suggested we'd trespass with our van-plus-trailer to retrieve it. They only got off their butts then, to advise me I would be breaking the law..... They entered with us, I showed them the V5 (despite that proclaiming it isn't proof of ownership) and asked the land-owner where he got the car: "£80 from a man at the pub" but they didn't continue with investigations.
So as has been said before, what exactly is breaking the law? When is it OK to handle stolen goods? Also how does one prove one owns a vehicle if not the V5: I bought my car privately many years earlier, before the seller died! Strikes me selective criminology.
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What a bizarre story, good that you managed to recover the car yourself, but very poor by the police.
I'm not sure that police forces (generally) have done themselves many favours: they have been claiming a shortage of resources means they can't investigate theft, but then find sufficient people to harass children for playing in their own gardens during this pandemic. I can't see them doing so well in future spending allocations having lost considerable sympathy from the public.
Best wishes.