Car Clocking

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Dear Ipswich Borough 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,

Mr.M.Robson

customerservices@ipswich.gov.uk, Ipswich Borough Council

Dear Mr Robson,

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matter: Trading Standards - Car Clocking.

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Ipswich Borough Council
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Ipswich
IP1 2DE

customerservices@ipswich.gov.uk, Ipswich Borough Council

Dear Mr Robson,

Thank you for your recent request for information as detailed below;

Trading Standards - Car Clocking

Illegal car clocking / vehicle mileage adjustment:

 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?

I can confirm that this council does not hold any information in relation
to your request and that your request would be better directed to Suffolk
County Council who are responsible for the following:

* Highway improvements & Traffic control,
* Social Care & Children's and Young People's Services
* Education
* Gypsies and travellers
* Pension funds
* Public Health
* Libraries

Trading Standards is the responsibility of Suffolk County Council.

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Kind regards,

The Information Officer
[Ipswich Borough Council request email]
 
Ipswich Borough Council
Grafton House
15-17 Russell Road
Ipswich
IP1 2DE