Written Question·Home Office·UIN 43744

Police: Fees and Charges

Tabled: 2 April 2025
Answered: 11 April 2025

Question

Mike Tapp

LabourDover and Deal

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to prevent the police from charging victims of theft whose cars have been stolen for the cost of holding or releasing those vehicles.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
The Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (RTRA) empowers the police to remove vehicles that are dangerously, illegally, or obstructively parked, or broken down or abandoned, which includes vehicles abandoned after theft.Removals and storage entail a cost, whi...

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