It takes less than 10 seconds for car thieves to drive away a vehicle with the help of high-tech devices such as signal jammers and frequency duplicators. 'Gone are the days when thieves unlocked the vehicle manually, hot-wired it to start and drove the car away,' said...
Police investigations revealed there are multiple facets involved in a car theft - from those hired to steal the vehicle, the transporter who would bring the vehicles to its last stop and the mastermind involved.
"The thief would steal the car, dropped it off at a designated location for a middleman to pick it up," he said.Car thieves, he said, tend to use carparks at the supermarket and residential areas as their drop-off point. SAC Khairuldin said members of the syndicate would not meet each other and in most cases, they would not know each other."The thief and middleman are also paid differently. For example, thieves assigned to steal a Toyota Vellfire would be paid between RM5,000 and RM7,000 a vehicle," he said.
To prevent car theft, SAC Khairuldin advised vehicle owners to go back to basics by installing extra locking mechanisms, such as a steering lock. "These old fashioned locks would make it longer and harder for them to take away the vehicle," he said.
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