September insights: Recoveries, trends and tips from Global Telemetrics
As the dark nights are closing in and Jack Frost prepares to ice up vehicles across the country, this is our annual reminder to never leave your car unattended whilst defrosting – every year we see vehicles stolen this way. Even during the milder days of September, Global Telemetrics successfully recovered £1.9m worth of vehicles which brings our grand total to an astonishing £196m!
September Recovery highlights.
Most Recovered Vehicle – Mercedes took the top spot for vehicles stolen during the month, with numerous models of C, G and S classes all recovered.
Other vehicles recovered included:
- Audi Q8 and RS 7
- BMW 420i and X3
- A Can-Am 450 which was recovered alongside 2 other non tracked vehicles
- Multiple Jaguar F-Pace
- Multiple Lamborghini Urus
- Land Rover models including Range Rover Sport and Vogue
- Multiple Lexus RX 450 H
- Multiple Porsche Cayman
Recoveries on video
Our Repatriations Team have continued to document vehicle recoveries on video where possible.
In September, a Mercedes GLE recovery was filmed prior to the customer’s arrival, followed by an interview with our team. Later that month, a stolen BMW X3 was recovered and filmed by our team just 30 minutes after they were dispatched to the location.
All of these videos and more can be found on our YouTube channel
Quickest Recovery – 28 minutes
At the beginning of the month, our Secure Control Centre team detected a late-night journey of a customer’s Lexus RX 450H. This immediately raised a red flag, as the vehicle rarely moved without a detection card, and late-night drives were uncommon.
Immediately our team called the customer to try and confirm it was them driving the vehicle but after numerous failed attempts at contact, we became confident it was stolen. We began to mobilise our Auto-crime Repatriations Investigators to the vehicles current location. Whilst passing this information on, the customer called back and confirmed it was indeed stolen. In just 28 minutes after the initial first attempt to call the customer our team had located and secured the vehicle which ended in successfully returning it to its rightful owner.
Trace, Track, Get My Car Back
As you will have probably seen on our social media channels, BBC One has been screening a new series called ‘Trace, Track, Get My Car Back’ at 2pm Monday to Thursday. Our team features in episode 9 which is due to be broadcast on the 20th October and then again in episodes 15 and 16 as the series concludes.
The whole series can be viewed on the iPlayer here
Hotspots
Once again London took the top spot for the highest number of vehicle thefts. Wandsworth was the most popular location and 32% of all vehicles stolen were contained in a London Borough. The West Midlands was second and Essex came in third.
Coming soon
On October 18th our friends at Supercar Driver will be hosting their season closer event. This is a celebration of 15 years of Supercar Driver and will involve a road trip from various locations around the UK all heading to Manchester for a big celebratory party. We will be following the journey with a lead car from each location – and you will be able to follow along too at trackus.globaltelemetrics.com
