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Cuts have consequences Bad luck or bad lock?

With so much on TV, social media and press about scooter and bike theft gangs, I put the feelers out for someone who’d been in the police to give me a line on the state of play with UK motorcycle and scooter theft. Before meeting up I did some research, and the figures were shocking. Did you know more motorbikes are stolen per year in the UK than are bought new? Most thefts occur in urban areas; London’s the worst (particularly within the M25), then it’s West Yorkshire, West Midlands and Greater Manchester. It takes, on average, just 20 seconds to

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