Police from the Inner West Patrol Group are warning residents of Inner West suburbs, that within the past week, thieves have been targeting vehicles and stealing registration plates.
Reports indicate that targeted vehicles were parked in locations such as; residential driveways, carparks and on the street, with the plates being stolen during the night and day.
Stolen registration plates are then often fitted to other vehicles, in an attempt to avoid detection during offence/s or used in offences, such as fuel drive offs etc.
It takes only a few seconds for thieves to unscrew your number plates, which are held on with conventional screws.
Police are encouraging the public to replace their standard number plate screws with special anti theft ‘one way’ security screws which cannot be removed with conventional tools once fitted. The fitment of these screws have proven to be a strong deterrent to thieves.
The ‘one way screws’ can be obtained free of charge by contacting your helpful Crime Prevention
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