Vehicles Seized (1127A/22)
Request
– The number of vehicles seized by the force in the 2021 calendar year
– A breakdown of the number of cars seized above by the recoded reason for the seizure.
– The number of the above vehicles that were returned to their owners.
Response
Please find our response below.
WMP seized 24,420 vehicles in 2021, of which 14,050 were returned. The seized vehicles are broken down as follows:
| OWNER’S REQUEST | 450 |
| PP/ABANDONED VEHICLE | 927 |
| PP/ABANDONED/STOLEN | 4,730 |
| PP/BREAKDOWN | 30 |
| PP/BURNOUT | 24 |
| PP/DVLA NO TAX | 2,059 |
| PP/DVLA NO TAX/FOREIGN REG | 40 |
| PP/NO INSURANCE/DRIVING LICENCE | 9,226 |
| PP/OBSTRUCTION/DANGER | 1,235 |
| PP/POLICE REFORM ACT | 54 |
| PP/RTC | 2,940 |
| PP/RTC/LIFE CHANGING/FATAL | 129 |
| PP/SECTION 22 PACE | 2,576 |
| Total | 24,420 |
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.
The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.
If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.
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