NATIONAL MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT REDUCTION COUNCIL

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NATIONAL MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT REDUCTION COUNCIL

• Building Capacity For National Collaboration to
  Reduce Vehicle Theft
• (The Australian Experience)
• Presented by Ray Carroll Executive Director
  NMVTRC to the Rutgers University School of
  Criminal Justice Auto Theft Conference
• October 2003

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Session Outcomes

• An understanding of the NMVTRCs strategy and its
  role in facilitating implementation
• An appreciation of the key factors for achieving
  successful partnerships
• An appreciation of the benefits in crime
  reduction that can be achieved through successful
  partnerships.

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Setting the Scene
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Setting the Scene
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Setting the Scene
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Setting the Scene
Land Mass 8 million sq. kilometers
Population 280.5 million
Vehicles 204 million
Vehicle Thefts in 2001 1,226,457
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Setting the Scene
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Setting the Scene
Land Mass 7.6 million sq. kilometers
Population 19.5 million
Vehicles 13.5 million
Thefts in 2001 136,236
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Setting the Scene
USA thefts per 1,000 vehicles in 2001 6.01
Aust thefts per 1,000 vehicles in 2001 10.1
A rate of 10.1 in USA 2.00 million
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Why a National Strategy?

• National task force findings
• Vehicle theft was shown to be a significant
  community crime problem
• Solutions involved major infrastructure reforms
  at the national level
• There needed to be a catalyst for change
• Timing was politically right

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NMVTRC Membership

• Independent Chairman
• All Australian Governments
• Insurance Council of Australia
• Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries
• Motor Trades Association of Australia
• Australian Automobile Association
• Australian Police Ministers Council
• Austroads (all state transport agencies)

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An Action Research Methodology

• Understand the scope and dynamics of vehicle
  theft
• Systematically develop means of blocking
  opportunities for vehicle theft
• Implement the most promising and practical
  solutions
• Monitor and communicate results

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Data Collection

• Comprehensive Auto Theft Research System (CARS)
  receives electronic downloads of
• all vehicle theft reports to state police
  services
• all state vehicle registration databases
• vehicle manufacturers database
• approx. 70 of all insurance claims

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CARS Analyser
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Identifying a Prevention Strategy

• No Single BIG BANG Solution
• Requires Integrated Strategy

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Barriers to Economic Theft

• Effective uniform registration procedures
• National linkage of information systems
• Improved vehicle identification
• Ethical motor trades practices
• Export control

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Barriers to Opportunistic Theft

• Community education
• Electronic immobilisation
• Diverting young offenders

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Creating Partnerships

• YES ITS A SERIOUS
• PROBLEM, BUT...

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The Reform Process
Set Reform Agenda
Plan and Prioritize
Secure Stakeholder Commitment
Implementation
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Creating the Catalyst for Reform

• Is Being a Good Thing To Do Enough?
• Overcoming inertia
• Raising priorities
• Establishing a business case
• Creating the political will
• Who will make these things happen?

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Maintaining Momentum

• Critical Factors
• Resources
• Timeframes
• Reform fatigue
• Measuring and demonstrating outcomes

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Theft Outcomes
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