Car Clocking

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Dear Lewisham 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

Foi, Customer, Lewisham Borough Council

Dear MR Robson,

Re: Freedom of Information Act 2000
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Reference No: 417111

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Fowler, Joel, Lewisham Borough Council

Dear Mr Robson,                               

 

Freedom of Information request: 417111.

 

Thank you for your request for information held by London Borough of
Lewisham, copied below for ease-

 

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?

 

We can respond to your request for information as follows.

 

We have received no reports of car clocking in the last five years.

 

We hope you will find the above information helpful.

 

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Joel

 

Joel Fowler

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Corporate Complaints, Casework & Information Governance Team.

 

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