Crime Reduction - Helping to Reduce Crime in Your Area

Locating Locating Motor Salvage Operators

There are a number of ways you can locate the motor salvage operators in your area.

These include:

• Publications

• Contacting other organisations or departments in your local authority

• Going out and about

• Internet 

Publications 

You should try:

• Yellow pages
  

• Thomson local directory
  

• Local newspapers
  

• Loot/Auto Trader and other similar magazines

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Contacting other organisations or departments in your local authority

You should try:

• Police who may have intelligence and local knowledge
  
  

• Police Single Point of contact
  
  

• Trading Standards who may have received complaint about incorrect parts being supplied
  
  

• Environmental Health who may have received complaints about particular sites 
  
  

• Business rates dept at the local authority
  
  

• Registered motor salvage operators who may have knowledge of local competition.  You could ask at the time of registration or accompany police on enforcement visits. It is in their interests to help locate other operators. Crimestoppers allow people to notify anonymously

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Going out and about

You should try:

 

• Developing local knowledge of industrial units in the local authority area by driving around the area
  
  

• Locating addresses for adverts that only provide mobile phone numbers e.g. "scrap cars wanted"
  
  

• Carrying out familiarisation visits to operators 
  
  

• Following up leads from other motor salvage operators

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Last update: 18 October 2004