Car Clocking

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Dear Gloucestershire County Council,

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?

2) Of those cases, how many were dealt with by prosecuting the suspected offenders?

3) How many of those prosecutions were successful?

4) In total, how many vehicles were involved in the successfully prosecuted cases?

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"?

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?
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?

Yours faithfully,

Yours faithfully,

Mr.M.Robson

Gloucestershire CC, Gloucestershire County Council

Information request
Our reference: 6563180

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Dear ‎Mr Robson‏
 
Request for Information (Reference: 6563180)
 
Thank you for your request for information, received on 11 September 2017.
 
Request summary:
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?
2) Of those cases, how many were dealt with by prosecuting the suspected
offenders?
3) How many of those prosecutions were successful?
4) In total, how many vehicles were involved in the successfully
prosecuted cases?
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"?
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?
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?
 
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Information request
Our reference: 6563180

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Dear Mr Robson
 
I am pleased to provide a response to your request for information,
received on 11 September 2017:

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?
2) Of those cases, how many were dealt with by prosecuting the suspected
offenders?
3) How many of those prosecutions were successful?
4) In total, how many vehicles were involved in the successfully
prosecuted cases?
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"?
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?
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?

Please find this information attached.

Gloucestershire County Council has not withheld any information in
relation to this request under the exemptions of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (FoIA).

I will now close your request as of this date.

Yours sincerely
Gareth Heward
Information Requests Officer
Information Management Service

01452 324000

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