Crime concerns raised over stolen licence plates
George Town Police Station
(CNS): Several vehicle licence plates have been stolen recently and the RCIPS is asking the public to help them track the plates down before they are used in the course of criminal activity. Police said that five yellow plates, including one from a motorbike, are known to have been stolen and they are asking the community to call them if they see any of the numbers below or any vehicles with mismatched plates.
The plate numbers are:
134 100
153 035
151 226
134 115
165 073 (motorcycle)
If any member of the public spots one of these plate numbers, they are asked to note down the colour, make and model of the car the plate is on, the location where the car was seen or where it was heading and the time, and then call the George Town Police Station at 949-4222 or 649-4222, or the Miami-based call centre for Crime Stoppers at 800-8477 (TIPS).
As well as keeping a lookout for these specific numbers, the police are asking people to look for plates that are not identical on the front and the back of vehicles as well as other suspicious activity.
The cops can’t get a break can they? they’ve reported to us that they have stolen plates and ask for public assistance and we criticize. what happens if your business is robbed and as it turns out the only info you have is a license plate on a fleeing vehicle which turns out to be one of these stolen license plates? would you not have hoped that someone earlier may seen this same plate on a vehicle acting suspiciously outside your premises and contact the cops and perhaps help prevent a crime from taking place. stop always criticizing and look at the value of this information and how you can do your part to make Cayman safe.
If you live on “what if” all the time then you turn this island into a police state! The thought of “what if” can never end. It can cripple you and cause you not to live life.
True! But my plate was stolen and I only had to report it 3x, told me they would log it as lost!?? Good right crime is down
You see folks, you have to follow the money trail. The reason why police is working tirelessly to capture these licenses swapping crooks, is because the Department of Licensing and Car Insurance companies would simply lose their dollars.
Has it not occurred to you how government is so silent on fighting for us and enforcing the Insurance companies to at least reduce their cost??? They are largest consumers of people’s money. They would have the police on our backs, disregarding the major crimes, riding us to the ground. Its money folks THE MONEY! No wonder why decent citizens have to break laws to make ends meet. 😉
How about the stolen drugs from the Police Headquarters? How about answers on how this happenend with Security supplied by the Security Centre? Baines and Bostock are silent on this and and the RCIP want the Public to be on the look out………..do your job!. Poor poor poor.More distractions from Baines to cover incompetence.
Ok I have made a note of the license plate numbers and if I see any of them I will ask whoever is driving the vehicle, where they are intending to rob and when, and the names of the people that will be participating in the robbery…
Then I will tell the PoPo so that they can sit in wait for the robbery…
I will also alert the Prosecutor’s Office in advance so they can have a head start in preparing the charges…
Could you iron the sheets for their prison beds, in anticipation of a good result too? I would but I will be too busy robbing somewhere and wont have time.
What a pathetic waste of time and public resources.
RCIPS spend your time trying to catch the rapists, murderers and child molesters among us.
THAT WOULD BE A USEFUL PUBLIC SERVICE!!!!!!!!!
In fairness, RCIPS catch the child molester and then the judge lets him travel overseas on a $5,000 dollar surety. At least we know the value of a child.
That would have to be a Judicial Joke for 2015. That’s what taxpayers are saying for.
and they really didn’t have to catch a molester since that was probably based on a report with clear evidence leaving not much work for them
Go on ebay and get all the Cayman plates you want!
This explains why so many cars and motorbikes have missing registration plates these days. I’ve always wondered. Anyhow, it doesn’t make a gnat’s whisker of a difference as the one that remains is sure to be obscured by spray-painted plastic.
I always thought the low-hanging fruit would be grabbed first, but obviously missing vehicle registration plates come way down the list, just after, ‘chopping off every exit on the roundabout before turning without indicating at any point.’ So what about a crime being committed while using opaque plates? Or is this okay just as long as they’re not stolen? And how would you know if they were stolen if you can’t see them? Now I’m getting confused….I think it’s time the Police explained, as it’s quite beyond me.
Considering the lax security at RCIPS HQ perhaps the Department of Vehicle Licensing may be experiencing the same. Can RCIPS clarify if these plates were stolen from vehicles or from DVL stock of returned plates. The end result might not matter – stolen is stolen, but at least let the public know.
This has got to be a joke! Right ???? RCIP is letting tinted plate covers prevail and they want to waste time and money in asking for public help in finding five stolen licenses plates?
Why steal just one plate from each vehicle? I’m clearly missing something.
Were they on vehicles parked at the back of the police station???
The alarm was off
Why steal license plates when you can just put a tinted cover over them and nobody cares anyway.
Or scrape the yellow off so they look like tourist plates……noticed every day all over the island. Why?
Unfortunately the yellow coming off may not be intentional. I got new plates in 2009 and before the end of 2010 the back plate had peeled off all on it’s own and I was required to pay for new plates when I went for my inspection even though mine were less than 2 years old. I did nothing to help the yellow paint come off but lo and behold the paint on my new plates also disintegrated so I will probably be forced to buy new plates again at my next inspection. Not impressed. The last plates I had (before these poorly painted ones of 5-6 years ago) were still bright and shiny after more than 15 years.
Thanks for pointing your experience withthe paint peeling thats why i have “tinted factory plate
covers” mine are now12 yrs old and look brand new thanks to my covers it saved me $$$ and the covers are very visable
Except they are not legal and if they are tinted they are not a visible as the law allows.
12 years and no peeling yellow…..
Nope no sir not one bit and shes in the sun everyday all day
Spent $15 @ automotive art im a happy camper no wasted plate fees
Sorry I was not clear. My plates are 12 years old. The yellow is not peeled……
Had my plates for 12 years. No peeling.
Further more…why even have a license plate system ? As the dozen motor cycle riders that blaze about with no regard to the rather inconvenient law ( they obviously think it is silly ) that requires a road user to insure , register and have plate tags on their bike. But their bikes also have no lights ….
I always feel bad, like I am ruining their fun on Sunday afternoons by taking up much needed racing lanes on the bypass.
Out on my bicycle yesterday (Saturday) at 7.30 am there was a dirt bike no plates, no lights, no nothing who wheelied all the way from the Cost-u-less roundabout to the Island heritage one. I had to resist the urge to kick him off…if you are out there reading this dirt bike rider-you did not impress anyone, the people I was with and I thought you looked really stupid, whilst you thought you were so clever. We all concluded that the need to demonstrate such foolishness probably arises out of an inadequacy complex as a result of having an incredibly small penis. And who am I kidding that you are reading this? You probably didn’t get out of second grade.
The handful of high-functioning autistic readers that have already committed these abstract numbers to memory will be sure to help. For the rest of us, it will be difficult to ascertain obscured numbers since RCIPS fail to enforce ban on tinted plate covers (among other things), and if the vehicle is run with a plate at all. Perhaps we could ask the RCIPS to go ahead and address that fundamental traffic issue first. The absence of that department is perhaps the most suspicious non-activity in this territory. It is far and away the most enabling factor in the permissive crime problems we must confront, and they’ve been told as much for years and years and do nothing.
I’ve not only committed these numbers to memory , but have them on a pad in my pocket along with my pencils and BIC biro’s. Should have the results shortly
signed….
Rainman
Can’t help tonight. Jeopardy at 7pm.