Northamptonshire County Council
By Email
Please ask for:
Freedom of Information
Mr M Robson
Tel:
01604 368360
Our ref:
FR7602
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Your ref:
Date:
3rd October 2017
Dear Mr Robson,
Information Request: FR7602
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request dated 11th September 2017 which was
received by us on 12th September 2017. Your request has been dealt with under the Freedom of
Information Act and is detailed below in italics.
(Please note the extract below has been taken directly from your original information request and is
unedited).
Our Response
The Freedom of Information Team has been provided with the following information in response to
your recent request on behalf of Northamptonshire County Council (NCC).
TRADING STANDARDS FOI
Illegal car clocking/ vehicle mileage adjustment is in the news at the moment as such could you
answer the following questions.
1) How many cases of car clocking has your council investigated in the last 5 years? 74
complaints including a car clocking element. Not all will be justified.
2) Of those cases, how many were dealt with by prosecuting the suspected offenders? One
(2014).
3) How many of those prosecutions were successful? One.
4) In total, how many vehicles were involved in the successfully prosecuted cases? 12
5) What is your council’s policy for alerting innocent members of the public and motor trade to
vehicles the council has successfully proven have been "clocked"? No written policy.
Northamptonshire County Council
One Angel Square
Angel Street
Northampton, NN1 1ED
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t. 01604 368360
f. 01604 237004
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6) Can you provide confirmation in respect of question 5 of the type of action you have taken to
warn people about the vehicles you have discovered to have been clocked? Press release after a
successful prosecution.
For example, publishing vehicle details, alerting Auto Trader or other specialist publications;
registering data with HPI and other mileage data services.
7) Has the council or trading standards department seized any "clocked" vehicles over the past five
years and subsequently destroyed them? No.
The information supplied is provided for private use, such as non-commercial research purposes,
and news reporting. Any other type of re-use will require the permission of the copyright owner
under the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015.
If you are unhappy with the response, you can ask the Council to review it. To do this please write
to the address below:
Mr Simon Deacon
Reviewing Officer
Northamptonshire County Council
One Angel Square
Angel Street
Northampton
NN1 1ED
Email
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If our internal review does not resolve the issue to your complete satisfaction, you have the right to
apply to the information Commissioner for a decision at the following address:
Information Commissioner
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF
Or, if you have any complaints in respect of your information request please complete the on-line
comments form that can be found at
www.northamptonshire.gov.uk, along with a full set of
guidance.
Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information/Data Protection Team
Business Intelligence and Project Management
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