no plate gone missing !!!!

[Lankytim]

Jokers....

[BenzBoy]

WHAT!? This sort of thing makes me so angry. You go to report a crime that you were a victim of, and you get a producer?! Police complaints, newspaper, etc.

[Datsun4Life]

The number plate off my car went missing once...


...Only to turn up in my bed in a 'Godfather-horses-head' type of situation thanks to my housemates. You guys...

[arthurbrown]

I recently lost one of mine, it was the one on my trailer which is a bit curse word, so I assume it wanged off into a hedge as I trundled to the tip. As I have not been arrested for ram-raiding or massive pez theft I assume this was the case.

If I'd reported it, I probably would have been offered 'counselling'. I got that the other day when I rang the plod to report half my clobber going missing out of my van in the night. Victim support pack too, woo-hoo! I had to ring them back three times too to see if they were actually going to do owt (take a guess).

[alfazer]

Soooooo many of these guys are complete losers. I've had the same kind of treatment, running to the station with my docs, just for driving an old car and it has tax, good tyres etc.
Telling the local paper sounds good but then the cops get psd off and they are never off your case, trying to get you for something else. What is it about cops??? Why doesn't the government just give them guns, fish and barrels full of water for xmas. Maybe then they'd all be happy. Rant over..

[Lankytim]

With the coming of ANPR and the insurance database, arnt producers completely pointless now anyway?

[popuptoaster]

they probably gave you the producer cos they suspect your reporting your plate stolen after buzzing a speed camera at warp speed, not to difficult to ring the plod in the morning and say

"my plate went missing sometime in the last umptytwenty days"

to save you picking up the points cos all bikers are mad loony speed murder death kill merchants ya know.

[UtterPiffle]

I don't see the problem needing to produce documents.

It proves who you are and that the reported offence is legitimate.

Patronising comments such as riding without plates is illegal are unnecessary though.

[magnetteman]

The plates went missing off my Merc overnight a couple of years ago whilst we were staying in Cornwall.
As the local Police station was a Monday-Friday/9-5 jobby and this was a Saturday morning I called the number on their door. The first thing that happened was that I was read my rights for keeping a motor vehicle on the road in an illegal condition which really finished the day off for me. I got the usual crime number and was told that if I go to the local motor factors they would make me some plates up....but don't take the car.
The motorfactors were really helpful as I didn't have any docs with me (they were 300 miles away!). They called the dvla who went the extra mile to sort it out for me and I got my new plates, the guy in the shop even lent me a drill to take with me to fit them with.

I got stopped by the plod 4 times on the way home that night.

What was the reasoning behind you being given a producer, is it a bike thing??

[Lankytim]

When my plates were nicked off my Volvo last year the rozzers were very good, I rang 999 and reported it- no problem. 10 mins later the local station rang me back and took a statement, they said it was fine to store/drive the car with no plates aslong as I got them replaced ASAP. Parked on the road overnight and drove from Birmingham up to Stoke the following morning, nobody batted an eyelid! Never got pulled over for having "cloned" plates either.