Car theft in Warsaw (the most popular cars among car thieves in Poland)

Poland's crime rate was going down for awhile.

Then, as soon as more Brits start visiting & moving to Poland then the Polish auto theft rate rises?

When Britain has a higher car theft rate than Poland. Hmm.


Why not? I mean a visitor can just steal a car & go back home & not have to worry about the police in that nation.

Pure comedy. Why not look at the arrest statistics rather than trolling about things you don't have any connection to.

Oops, I forgot - they're in Polish so you can't understand them.

Why do Brits with names like John move to Poland?

Are they secretely there to steal Polish cars & send them back to Britain?

Merged: Top 5 most-stolen cars in Warsaw

1. Toyota (all models)
2. Honda (all models)
3. Mazda (all models)
4. VW (Golf and Passat)
5. Mercedes (mainly Sprinter)

Good news for me is that Nissan does not figure in that list, and that car thefts went down 20% since last year.
(Data provided by Warsaw police, and published in GW)

Caterham nowhere on the list, all looking good!

Toyota...I could understand...sometimes I think half of Warsaw drives in a Yaris.
But Mazda???

Sobieski: it's all about breaking them for parts (given how expensive mx-5 parts are here).

Spares for Japanese cars are indeed expensive.
Weren't Polski Fiats in the recent years also in the hitlist? I remember something like that.

Must be a difficult one in the winter, hope you have a covered garage, I also have a classic soft top which goes to sleep from November to April. In regards to car being stolen in Warszawa it was far worse in the 90's than it is now, also the security devices for cars are much superior today, I would expect it to go the same way as most countries with ' jacking ' of high end becoming the most lucrative for ' black hats'.

Interesting image showing number of stolen cars in regions of Poland from Janury to the end of Septembr this year.



differences are huge.

Merged: Top-4 of most-stolen cars in Warsaw 2013


warszawa.gazeta

According to police statistics the top-4 of most stolen cars in Warsaw during last year is as follows:

1. Toyota - 388
2. Honda - 386
3. Mazda - 184
4. Volkswagen - 117

In Warsaw during 2013 (until 26 December) 2108 cars were stolen (plus 896 in the 10 districts around the city).
For 2012 the number respectively was 2102/729

And a whole lot better if you look at the statistics for 2001: 11500/3500...

For Poland as a whole the most-stolen car is Volkswagen.

I was talking to a police officer who lives in the flat opposite me he told me in krakow people will steal to order a car so they can swap the vin plates with a Totalled car then sell it on for a big ole profit

Thats is/was standard practice the world over.

From what I read in various articles, that's one possibility. Second one, they steal them for spare parts. Given the price of spare parts for Japanese cars...

Still the drop in numbers of cars stolen is remarkable.

This broke my translator. What does it mean? :)

Stealing to order = stealing something specific on request.

is this correct too?
In Krakow people will order to steal a car

No. The correct sentence would be: In Kraków, people will steal a car to order.

ok, thanks.

Surprisingly, the Eastern provinces of Poland are not that 'popular' among car thieves (in theory they should be because the stolen cars could be moved to the Baltic / Russia countries).

Big part of stolen cars is disassembled and parts are sold.

Uh oh. Slaskie region is second highest. Although from the three cars on the right side, German products are the most in demand.

"Surprisingly, the Eastern provinces of Poland are not that 'popular' among car thieves (in theory they should be because the stolen cars could be moved to the Baltic / Russia countries)."

They used to be, but now that these borders are EU borders corruption among border guards has fallen to negligible levels. I live in these borderlands and I remember when there was a very lively trade in, e.g. petrol from Belarus. Not now.