Car clocking (vehicle mileage altering) - Find a freedom of information request

Request

  1. How many reports of car clocking (vehicle mileage altering) has your council received in the last five years - between the dates 1 January 2014 and 1 January 2019?

  2. How many cases of car clocking has your council investigated in the last five years - between the dates 1 January 2014 and 1 January 2019?

  3. Of those cases, how many ended in prosecution?

  4. How many of those prosecutions were successful?

  5. In total, how many vehicles were involved in the successfully prosecuted cases?

  6. Has the council or trading standards department seized any "clocked" vehicles ‎over the past five years and subsequently destroyed them - between the dates 1 January 2014 and 1 January 2019?

  7. Does your council or trading standards office register data with Hire Purchase Investigation (HPI) and other mileage data services when clocked vehicles are discovered? If so, what data is registered or shared?

Decision
  1. 40.
  2. Five.
  3. Nil.
  4. Not applicable.
  5. Not applicable.
  6. No.
  7. No.
Reference number
FOI0106
Date request received
30 May 2019
Date of decision
14 June 2019