{"id":1374,"date":"2011-12-14T11:48:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T11:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/blog\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2011-12-14T11:48:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T11:48:06","slug":"protect-your-personalised-number-plate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/14\/protect-your-personalised-number-plate\/","title":{"rendered":"Protect Your Personalised Number Plate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are warning all car owners to do what they can to prevent their personalised number plates from being stolen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bailey-reg-number.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1376\" title=\"Personalised number plate BAILEY W\" src=\"http:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bailey-reg-number.jpg\" alt=\"Personalised number plate\" width=\"247\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The  theft, which can prove to be quite costly for the victim, often results  in personalised number plates being used on another car while a crime such as petrol theft  is committed.<\/p>\n<p>Hobsons Bay Community Liaison Officer, Senior  Constable Sharon Radau said preventing the theft is as easy as fitting  plates with one way screws.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPersonalised Number plate theft is a big issue,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Sen Const  Radau said installing the one way screws was easy and could only be  removed with a special tool not sold to the general public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe screws are free at Altona North Police Station or you can buy them from Bunnings,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStandard screws are easy to come off with a screwdriver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStealing  number plates is like stealing the car\u2019s identity and often used for  petrol drive-offs or for other more serious crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mary Mammoliti from Bunnings, who has been a victim of number plate theft, agreed installing one way screws was a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>Police will be holding a Safe Plates Day on Saturday 17 December.<\/p>\n<p>Residents will be able to have their number plates fitted with one way screws for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are warning all car owners to do what they can to prevent their personalised number plates from being stolen. The theft, which can prove to be quite costly for the victim, often results in personalised number plates being used<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-xs btn-info read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/14\/protect-your-personalised-number-plate\/\" role=\"button\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-reg-plate-news","category-world-number-plate-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}