Cars, Cops & Criminals

Big Business follows the police as they track down the organized crime networks making millions shipping stolen cars abroad, and reveals how gangs steal identities to carry out the growing crime of Vehicle Insurance Fraud.

Casting the Net, highlights the new technology and tactics that the police are using to catch crooks as they travel round the country. It shows the devastating effects of number plate cloning - with criminals using sophisticated, and not so sophisticated techniques to steal other cars' identities - often resulting in thousands of pounds of fines and a visit from the bailiffs for the victims.

Moving On follows the police as they use the latest technology to catch crooks breaking into the cars around the upmarket streets of Chelsea. The program highlights the increasing problem of so called "two and one" break-ins: car security systems are now so good that criminals are increasingly breaking into houses to steal car keys, often while the occupants are at home.

Car Crime in Britain today is big business and the crooks are picking on "soft targets" as the recession hits home. Cars, Cops and Criminals goes out on the road with Angus Nairn of the central motorway policing group as he chases those who will steal the loads from the back of lories and lorry drivers who illegally tamper with their tackographs to work more hours.

Cops from different police forces get together in Warwickshire for a massive crack down on motorists who break the law by driving without license and insurance. Using a sophisticated Automatic number plate recognition system, they find stolen cars.

Police teams at Felixstowe and Southampton crack down on the organized criminal gangs who are exploiting loopholes in the shipping business to ship stolen luxury cars from Britain to Africa and other parts of the world.