LEGALIZATION OF VEHICLES FROM CRIMES Warsaw 2017
STATISTICAL DATA
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 3428 2772 2452 2711 2625 2586 2642 2775 2528 2643 5486 9357 12360 11871 10790 15654 14319 18000 Number of cases commenced in the car theft category 16000 14000 12000 10000 8000 6000 4000 2000 0
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 detectability 18,0% 16,0% 16,4% 14,0% 12,0% 10,0% 8,0% 7,9% 12,8% 13,6% 12,8% 8,9% 13,0% 10,0% 10,7% 10,5% 8,1% 6,0% 4,0% 2,0% 2,0% 2,1% 2,8% 2,1% 2,6% 3,8% 0,0%
AMOUNT OF STOLEN VEHICLES FOR THE PERIOD OF I - XII 2015 - I - XII 2016 IN POLAND 2016 2015 Warsaw 2643 2528 Katowice 1631 1645 Poznań 1285 1513 Wrocław 1187 1233 Gdańsk 908 976 Łódź 803 1032 Kraków 487 599 Gorzów 445 472 Radom 383 381 Bydgoszcz 357 427 Szczecin 298 343 Olsztyn 218 252 Lublin 146 213 Białystok 125 111 Kielce 102 144 Rzeszów 102 108 Opole 99 160 CBŚP 1 4 Total 11220 12141
Despite the apparent decline in the number of stolen cars in Poland over the past 10 years, car theft is still a very profitable business that brings criminals profits in the hundreds of thousands of zlotys per person per year. Profits of the leading fences in the capital city of Warsaw, i.e. dealers of cars and car parts from crime, can reach up to several million zlotys a year. This is the sole cause of this type of crime. Everyone involved in car crime earns money.
Car crime = organized crime DRIVER LEGALIZATION THIEF FENCE DISMANTLER SALE OF PARTS WORKSHOP
According to our knowledge about 80% of all stolen vehicles are dismantled for parts and after removal of the factory designations: are sold through auction portals, are received in wholesale quantities by importers from behind the eastern border, are sold to car repair shops and authorized vehicle repair services, are used to reconstruct vehicles (wrecks) brought to Poland or purchased in Poland after damage that eliminates them from further use.
EXAMPLES OF PLACES FOR DISASSEMBLING, STORING AND SELLING AUTO PARTS FROM CRIME
The remaining 20% of vehicles after a change of identification marks end up on the used car market: internal (re-registration at the Communication Department and reinsurance at the insurance company); some of these legalized vehicles are then used to scam communications insurances for fictitious or set-up collisions, or subsequent fictitious thefts. or is exported abroad These indicators have an indicative value and result from the current needs of the criminal market.
EXAMPLES OF VEHICLES THAT HAVE RE- ENTERED THE MARKET AFTER CHANGING OF IDENTIFICATION
JETSKI VIN INTERFERENCE
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CHARACTERISTICS OF CAR CRIME IN THE AREA OF THE CAPITAL GARRISON
CAPITAL GARRISON
Unlike other regions of Poland, more than 50% of stolen vehicles are manufactured by Japanese / Korean makes (Honda, Toyota, Mazda, Hyundai, Mitsubishi, Lexus). These are vehicles with identification marks in a few places, and thus after the removal of 4-6 signs they become anonymous for the authorities of the Police, Prosecutors and Courts. This increases the sense of impunity in the environment of thieves and car fences, and among purchasers of such car parts and subassemblies it evokes a conviction about their legal origins. In comparison, German cars (most of which are stolen in other regions of Poland) have manufacturer marks in almost 100 places, which significantly impedes their legalization.
EXAMPLE IDENTIFICATIONS - TOYOTA
EXAMPLE IDENTIFICATIONS - BMW
LEGALIZATION
Legalization of stolen cars involves giving a new identity to a stolen vehicle. Criminal groups in possession of such cars order the stealing of specific brands and models to thieves. In stolen-car workshops, which can be home car repair shops, but also garages and utility rooms leased to substitutes based on false personal data, stolen cars are deprived of identifications, and identifications from their crashed twins are inserted in their place. More and more often whole elements on which such signs are imprinted are replaced. Then such a "repaired" car is introduced into secondary circulation through car commissions, Internet portals, registrations for other fictitious persons.
A few years ago, it was about bringing the most wrecked car from Western Europe to Poland with its original and legal documents. Germany, Italy and Spain have been leading imports of such automobile scrap. Then France took the lead. Currently wrecks from the United States of America are the priority, which are shipped to German ports (Hamburg, Bremen) in wholesale quantities, where customs clearance is performed. This is to avoid customs clearance in Poland and to obliterate possible evidence in the form of photographic documentation showing the scale of damage.
EXAMPLES OF "WRECKED" CARS BROUGHT TO POLAND
CAN YOU STOP IT???????? YES!!!
Liquidation of car crime = - liquidation of trade with car parts from illegal sources - liquidation of illegal dismantling sites
In order to significantly reduce the scale of automobile theft, it is necessary to develop a uniform method of combating car crime by all police units, courts, prosecutor's offices and external bodies: insurance companies, communication departments, environmental protection inspectorates, national tax administration and others.
LEGISLATIVE CHANGES Legislative changes - Art. 306 of the Criminal Code (deletion of identification marks) Legislative changes related to licenses for the trade of electronic devices used for the emergency opening or starting of vehicles Legislative changes concerning the adaptation of current regulations concerning the admission of vehicles to traffic in the Polish territory with the EU legislation.
SUGGESTED DIRECTIONS FOR COOPERATION Familiarizing employees of the Communication Departments with the phenomenon of legalization of cars from crimes and elaboration of schemes for notifying law enforcement agencies in case of suspected submission of documents for legalization. Sensitizing employees to the phenomenon of legalization of vehicles from crimes and elaboration of schemes of notification of law enforcement agencies in cases of insurance of suspicions of attempts to insure vehicles from crimes (identification of traces that may indicate illegal origin of vehicles - e.g. deleted or damaged identification tags) and attempting to extort compensation based on fictitious vehicle theft or collision.
Causing the exchange of information between the National Tax Administration and the prosecution authorities regarding the disclosure of persons "professionally" (wholesalers) engaged in the import of vehicles into Poland, with particular regard to vehicles with underserved market value due to damage. Working out the scope and methods of cooperation with the Environmental Protection Inspectorate in the field of notification of law enforcement agencies about illegal trade with waste (vehicles recognized in accordance with separate regulations as waste) brought to Poland and law enforcement response to identified cases of illegal dismantling of vehicles and utilization of their parts and operating fluids. Working out methods of cooperation and exchange of information with foreign entities involved in the insurance business. Collection and exchange of good practices in prosecution and conduct of car crime cases with representatives of other countries.
THANK YOU FOR ATTENTION
junior inspector Magdalena Kowalewska Head of the Division for the Fight against Car Crime of the Headquarters of the Metropolitan Police ul. Nowolipie 2, 00-150 Warsaw Poland email: magdalena.kowalewska@ksp.policja.gov.pl phone: +48 602 618 566, +48 22 603 03 68