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Feb 17, 2019 12:23:03 GMT
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FORD ESCORT MK2 RED STOLEN FROM EAST GRINSTEAD RH19 early hours of 17 Feb. YUA 373S. Stolen off driveway RS2000 replica, x-pack OHV Vulcan engine 1700cc. Dellorto carbs (i think) maybe Webber. Bucket seats. Alloys. Spotted heading Westbound on A264 , Near Copthorne / Crawley just after midnight.
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Last Edit: Apr 25, 2019 3:06:57 GMT by datman
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Feb 17, 2019 20:54:27 GMT
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Red mk2 Escort RS2000 replica, YUA373S, East Grinstead 16/02/19 Red mk2 Escort RS2000 replica registration YUA373S was stolen from the driveway of a property in East Grinstead, West Sussex on the night of 16th February 2019. The car is an RS2000 replica, fitted with full fibreglass X Pack bodykit. It has a rubber RS boot spoiler, Perspex rear & side windows plus Aerodynamic door mirrors. The engine is a Vulcan prepared 1700 lightened & balanced crossflow with Piper cam, duplex valve springs, gas flowed head & twin 40 Webers with K&N filters. The car has a high pressure oil pump, electric fuel pump & Pertonics electronic ignition. The exhaust is a Janspeed 4-2-1 manifold mated to a Peter Lloyd system. The car also has an alloy radiator & Kenlowe fan fitted. The car has a 4 speed type 2 gearbox & has a 4:1 english axle. Suspension wise the car has Bilsteins with 170lb 1” lowering springs & roller bearing top mounts, RS2000 steering arms, polybushed TCAs & double width bushes & a double width anti dive kit. On the rear the car has Spax adjustable, 1” lowering blocks & 116lb single leaf springs. The car has a 2.75 turn quick rack & group 4 steering knuckle joint, vented & drilled front discs with Mintex 1144 pads & standard 8” brakes on the rear. The shell has been stitch welded, has strengthened front inner wing supports, has been gusseted & the rear spring hangers skidded. The front floor sections have been strengthened & the battery & washer bottle have both been relocated to the boot. The wheels are Compomotive 13” 3 piece split rims with Kumho Ecsta V7000 tyres (215 55 R13 on the front & 235 45 R13 on the rear). The interior has been stripped of rear seat, trim, carpets & headlining, has additional switches for the Kenlowe fan, ignition/fuel pump & aux main beam. The car is fitted with mk3 Cortina clocks upgraded with LED dash lamps. Car was seen heading out of East Grinstead towards Crawley/ M23 at approx 12:30-1am.
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Feb 18, 2019 17:43:22 GMT
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Update, reported sighting of a car matching description early morning Monday 18th , A259 Seaford, Sussex, Eastbound towards Eastbourne area. Car had a tarp mostly covering it, and was on a trailer being towed by 'a blue Discovery'
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Feb 18, 2019 20:46:21 GMT
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Surely anpr cameras could be used to find A discovery towing a trailer with a car covered up on it?
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Feb 18, 2019 22:31:08 GMT
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you mean get it to pull dark coloured Discos from the anpr database of the area, then an actual person go through images to find if any are towing a trailer? Would be wonderful.. but you just know they are never going to bother with something like that. (sadly)
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69 Plymouth Fury Convertible 75 Range Rover 2 door 82 Range Rover 4 door 84 Range Rover 4 door 78 Datsun 120Y 2 door 78 Datsun 120Y Coupe 78 Datsun 620 Pickup 81 Datsun Urvan E23 86 Datsun Vanette van 98 Electric Citroen Berlingo 00 Electric Peugeot Partner 02 Electric Citroen Berlingo 76 Honda C50 04 Berlingo Multispace petrol 07 Land Rover 130 15 Nissan E-NV200 15 Fiat Ducato
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Feb 18, 2019 22:34:45 GMT
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Id be interested to know why they wouldnt.
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Feb 18, 2019 22:39:04 GMT
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Hi, Unfortunately the police's view is a car is an insurable item and if it's not insured, why not! It does seem perverse. Colin
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Last Edit: Feb 18, 2019 22:40:37 GMT by colnerov
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Id be interested to know why they wouldnt. Because that would mean the Police actually doing something that might lead to a useful arrest, something they seem to avoid at all costs....
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Feb 19, 2019 11:13:14 GMT
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Blame budget & officer cuts for that.
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Feb 19, 2019 19:03:40 GMT
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Did they put much effort into finding stolen cars before budget and officer cuts? I've never had a car stolen myself (touch wood) but people I know who have in the past said the police were all but useless then too.
It's funny how dispite all these budget and officer cuts they still have plenty of resources to hunt down and arrest people for hurting people's feelings on the internet.
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Last Edit: Feb 19, 2019 19:07:01 GMT by roccoguy
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Feb 19, 2019 21:02:12 GMT
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The problem is if you speak to a police officer Most will tell you they want to be out in the street fighting crime, but our government like the easy approach, take money off law abiding citizens for minor traffic offences it fills the coffers, Most of these officers spend hours doing paperwork And can’t be on the streets doing what they joined the force for, catching theiving scum There’s no easy solution but I just hope the government listen to the top police people and give funds for more officers, here’s hoping!
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Feb 25, 2019 22:54:43 GMT
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It's funny how dispite all these budget and officer cuts they still have plenty of resources to hunt down and arrest people for hurting people's feelings on the internet. Only if you believe what you read in the Daily Mail.
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Feb 26, 2019 12:55:31 GMT
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It's funny how dispite all these budget and officer cuts they still have plenty of resources to hunt down and arrest people for hurting people's feelings on the internet. Only if you believe what you read in the Daily Mail. I guess the dedicated police unit formed to deal with "online hate crime" is just a conspiracy dreamt up by the daily mail? I don't read that rag and can still post plenty of incidents of people being arrested or "spoken to" by the police for hurting people's feelings on the Internet. See the problem with "hate crime" is that the description of it is so vague that it's being used to cover all types of ridiculous reasons. One chap was recently phoned up out of the blue by a police officer and told to "check his thinking" because he shared a post on twitter about gender, a post that was factually correct and didn't break any laws according to the police officer, but someone had reported it because it offended them. Police time was then put into tracking down and contacting the twitter user who shared it. This incident was later confirmed to be true by the police. Unfortunately it's far from the only example, but yeah it's just the daily mail making stuff up or something apparently.
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Feb 26, 2019 15:30:54 GMT
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We just need to accept that a stolen car is not going to be a priority for the Police to investigate. Honestly? Social media and websites like this will do more to find the car than the Police could ever hope to achieve, you can reach thousands from a post like this, what exactly can the police really do that would match that? Not too much really. I have said before and I will keep saying it, owners need to do much more to protect their cars. Stick a mahoosive eyebolt into the drive way and a chain that you could moor the QE2 with around the axle and through it, if need be. They still take it? At least you did all you could to stop it. Yes, people should be able to keep their pride and joy parked up without it getting pinched but it's not 1952 anymore, we have to lock our front doors and close our windows, the world is what it is and we have to take all necessary measures to keep our stuff from being pinched. It's now down to owners and the public to do what the Police cannot, trawl the streets looking for buildings that have CCTV on them. Maybe a call to the highways dept explaining the situation and have they any recordings on the main roads available for the date the vehicle was taken. We have to be our own detectives now, that is just how it is, wrong but, look at it another way, it empowers you to take charge and not be at the mercy of a Police force that doesn't have the resource and doesn't really care. It's now life as we know it!
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Feb 27, 2019 11:45:36 GMT
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That's bang on, car crime is no longer seen as a priority for the police.
If ever I have contact with owners through my group who have their cars stolen I always advise them to search the local area for CCTV cameras & to print out pictures & spec of the car & circulate it around local petrol stations, taxi, bus & haulage firms to see if any of their drivers spotted it.
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Are you saying Highways run the CCTV cameras? I shall suggest he approaches them if that is the case. So far we only have a dark blurry image from neighbours cctv showing a Vivaro type van towing the car up the road. So if nothing else we know exactly when it was taken, yet police cannot be arsed to press some buttons and look at their CCTV. After all there could be someone parked on a double yellow to prosecute instead.
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Are you saying Highways run the CCTV cameras? I shall suggest he approaches them if that is the case. So far we only have a dark blurry image from neighbours cctv showing a Vivaro type van towing the car up the road. So if nothing else we know exactly when it was taken, yet police cannot be arsed to press some buttons and look at their CCTV. After all there could be someone parked on a double yellow to prosecute instead. On the basis that the highways authorities have control centres monitoring motorways , major routes and have those jam jar 4x4s patrolling those roads, I think its quite possible that, somewhere in the area their CCTV picked up the vehicle towing away that car. We are one of the most monitored societies in the world and we have been at the forefront of cctv tech and installation for eons. There must be cctv somewhere that has recorded the getaway. It has to be worth a punt?
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Hi, That's all true however under GDPR they can't give you anything that will identify an individual, only the police. So unfortunately back to square one.
Colin
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Hi, That's all true however under GDPR they can't give you anything that will identify an individual, only the police. So unfortunately back to square one. Colin That's quite true. However, they may have information recorded that pertains to a criminal offence, therefore, you would assume, they would have an obligation to hand any evidence over to the Police. Anything is worth a try.
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I think they will not entertain a request from the general public to allocate time to looking at the cameras, even if it would only take 10 minutes, such is the ridiculous world we live in full of red tape, jobsworths and too much tech, not enough people with jobs.
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