Auto thefts in Canada decreases nearly 19%: report

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The Canada’s auto theft rate for Ottawa-Older passenger vehicles is nearly 19 percent in 2024, but the number of stolen vehicles is still “unfair”.

Alberta is emerging as a part of anxiety, because there seems to be excluding their attention from old trucks – often to commit crimes and then abandon – towards new, high -value vehicles stolen for export.

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The Insurance Crime Monitoring Committee, Ecuration Association, said that over 57,000 private passengers were stolen in Canada last year, which was more than 70,000 in 2023.

The association’s report monitors the thefts of home vehicles such as cars, trucks, vans and SUVs and there are no thefts of commercial vehicles.

Alberta is now the highest individual vehicle theft rate-and the criminals in the province register for the stolen vehicles with Phone vehicle identity numbers, a procedure called re-visible. ”

He said the thieves were very difficult to determine if a vehicle was stolen by registering the wrong numbers with a provincial body.

“Repeated vehicles are increasingly exported, and are used by organized criminal groups,” Cast said.

“Basically, they are a way of getting free vehicles because they have stolen and registered, and it drives like a proper vehicle.”

The report accuses the report of false VIN records for the reduction of the rescue rate of stolen vehicles in Alberta from 87 and 85 percent, respectively by 77 per cent, respectively.

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The national stolen vehicle recovery rate was ashamed by 60 percent by 2024, which was about 56 percent in 2023. Cost said the national recovery rate is much lower than the rate of Alberta as vehicles were stolen for exports.

Cast added that the law enforcement of the stolen Alberta vehicles sent from the eastern ports, including the port of Montreal, is monitoring a spike.

“This is the entire network of these organized crime groups. This is not just a person who does this. They have a network,” “If there are a lot of enforcement in one country, they will attract another.”

When the central government launched its National Vehicle Theft Action Program last May, its focus was on Ontario and Quebec.

Cost said that insurance crimes, including auto theft, are the main source of money that allows the criminal groups that are organized to fund other activities in pharmaceutical and gun trade.

“They are very connected. Theft of vehicles is how organized criminal groups fund themselves,” he said.

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Cast said that there was a “behind the scenes” to fight the spread of fake numbers; He refused to publicly share the details of “to make the criminals difficult.”

He noted that tactics to frustrate the use of the wrong wean numbers are “certainly doing better” in Ontario.

The report praises the decline of vehicle thefts for the advanced legal enforcement strategies implemented last year as part of the wide federal action plan.

The program increased the integration between various police agencies, increased the X -ray scanning of shipping containers at ports and introduced the vertical criminal penalties.

The largest regional decrease in auto theft was recorded in Quebec, where the number fell from 15,000 in 2023 to about 10,000 last year.

Ontario fell by about 30,000 to 2023 to 2024 in 2024. This is the most of the thefts that any province registered in 2024.

BC, Alberta, Saskattevan and Manitoba, who were 13 percent decline in auto theft, were over 20,000 vehicle thefts last year. Alberta saw a 10 percent drop in theft last year.

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The Atlantic provinces registered 2,000 vehicles stolen in both 2023 and 2024.

Cast invited the Central Government to move the promised updates for the National Auto-Dudra Action Program.

Transport Minister Anita Anand said in October, the new rules were completed last summer, and promised to introduce modernized regulations by 2025.

But the parliament is currently estimated until March 24, and the opposition parties are more likely to quickly defeat the Liberal government and incite the initial election.

“It is a problem to steal new and high -value vehicles in 20, 30 seconds. So I hope this will be a priority,” Cast said.

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