Recovery and storage charges to retrieve stolen vehicles

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Dear West Midlands Police,

Please provide the information held on (a) the number of motorists who have paid recovery and storage charges to retrieve their stolen vehicles, and (b) the amount of money motorists have paid in recovery and storage charges to retrieve their stolen vehicles, by your police force in each year since the current statutory charges were set in 2008?

Yours faithfully,

Felix Mann

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Dear Mr Mann

 

FOI Request Reference: 006149/18

 

Thank you for your request for information, received 08/05/2018

 

REQUEST

 

Please provide the information held on (a) the number of motorists who
have paid recovery and storage charges to retrieve their stolen vehicles,
and (b) the amount of money motorists have paid in recovery and storage
charges to retrieve their stolen vehicles, by your police force in each
year since the current statutory charges were set in 2008?

 

RESPONSE

 

Please find enclosed our response.

 

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A) The number of motorists who have paid recovery and storage charges to
retrieve their stolen vehicles

 

YEAR NO OF RECOVERIES
2008 2229
2009 2601
2010 2892
2011 2755
2012 2365
2013 2365
2014 2519
2015 2789
2016 3628
2017 5083
2018 2033

 

 

B) The amount of money motorists have paid in recovery and storage charges
to retrieve their stolen vehicles, by your police force in each year since
the current statutory charges were set in 2008?

 

Please see below the total of money members of the public / insurance
companies have paid to the recovery operators for the recovery and storage
of their vehicles.

 

Year Removal fees (£) Storage Fees (£) Total of Removal and
Storage fees
2008 273365.00 157214.00 430579.00
2009 452460.00 272382.00 724842.00
2010 504225.00 227015.00 731240.00
2011 488855.00 162895.00 651750.00
2012 429053.00 155390.00 584443.30
2013 411215.00 139350.00 550565.00
2014 441227.60 154140.00 595367.60
2015 486431.92 224455.00 710886.92
2016 649180.00 372920.00 1022100.00
2017 944143.00 547489.00 1491632.00
2018 366835.00 198150.00 564985.00

 

 

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