February insights: recoveries, trends, and tips from Global Telemetrics
Whilst the sunshine starts to return and the winter chill leaves, thieves are still out in their balaclavas and gloves removing cars from their owners. During February, Global Telemetrics were responsible for the recovery of £1.7m worth of vehicles, a slight rise from January’s £1.4m total. This takes our all time recovered total to £183m
February recovery highlights
Most recovered make of vehicle: Land Rover
Most recovered models of vehicle: Range Rover Vogue, Ford Transit and Toyota Hilux all in joint 1st.
Other notable vehicles recovered included:
- Volvo XC60
- Mercedes Chic C-Line
- Nissan Navara
- Lexus NX 450 H
- Mercedes E 400
- BMW M3
- Porsche Macan
- Lamborghini Urus
Spotlight on plant theft
It wasn’t just cars stolen throughout the month, Global Telemetrics shot into action recovering a JCB Digger and Kubota RTV900 utility vehicle.
Plant theft remains a huge issue throughout the UK for farmers, construction companies and insurance underwriters, with many items stolen each year. Plant machinery theft can have many knock-on effects for businesses and business owners who rely on the machinery for their livelihood.
At the start of March, police ended an operation with 10 arrests, focusing on plant thefts worth £700k, click here to read more! Global Telemetrics provides solutions to deter theft and aid in recovering machinery once stolen, contact us for more information.
Quickest recovery
When waking up on the 1st February to find their Range Rover Sport had been taken from their driveway, our customer quickly got on the phone to our Secure Control Centre. With details taken, Aleks from our Stolen Vehicle Recovery Team immediately spoke to our Reparations Team who liaised with police. In just 7 minutes from the first call, the Range Rover was located and secured. Upon finding the vehicle, it was apparent that thieves had tried to find the tracking device but thanks to the expert installation by a GT approved installation engineer, they were unable to locate the device. Covert device installation remains the best defence against thieves locating trackers, giving vital time to police and recovery agents to attend the scene.
Regional hotspots
London remains in pole position with 37% of all vehicles recovered being stolen from the London area, Ealing being the most likely borough to encounter a car thief. Usually, the West Midlands takes second spot, but this month it dropped out of our top 3 for the first time in a long time to make way for Essex and West Yorkshire.
Upcoming projects
Last year Global Telemetrics sponsored our friends at Supercar Driver at their season opener event at Donington Park Circuit. The event was seen as a great success and is once again back for this year but this time bigger, with track time and displays over a full day. We will be sponsoring the event once again and will have a strong presence with our owners conducting passenger laps around the track for some of our team members and staff. As always with these events we will be covering the event heavily across all of our social media platforms.
