#Police stolen vehicle database license

Video generally cannot positively identify a suspect or other vehicles without a witness with specific knowledge. Most video systems are not installed to capture such details, just overall activities on site.

#Police stolen vehicle database license

Surveillance video may show the offense, or that another vehicle was involved, but it is often of poor quality, at extreme angle, blocked by obstacles, or installed at too great a distance to read a license plate or to specifically identify a suspect. Businesses do not always respond in a timely manner and we sometimes learn the video was recorded over, erased, or was it not recording. This can be a challenge when business employees don't have access to the video equipment, or video is stored off-site. If video exists, detectives work to view and retrieve it quickly. People often inquire about the existence of video. The unfortunate reality is, in most auto theft cases, there is initially little, or no evidence by which an investigation may begin. This tool works on your behalf 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, until your vehicle is found. Please know the most important tool is already working for you the police, and that is the state and nationwide stolen vehicle database.

We appreciate your patience, and your case is important to us. Our unit receives about 250 new cases per month, and we know the most important thing is that your vehicle is found and returned to you. Once your case is assigned, it will be investigated in the order in which it is received, exclusive of a need to pick up time-sensitive evidence, or when a post-arrest interview may be necessary. When your vehicle is recovered, you will be notified of where your vehicle was impounded, and if recovered in Austin, the fees that may be associated with its impound.

Please make sure that phone is operational and that phone's voicemail system is able to receive messages from a detective in case you do not answer. Our unit is still notified of the recovery and we attempt to call the number provided by the person who reported it stolen to make notification. If any police officer identifies your vehicle, or checks the license plate listed in the databases, they will be notified your vehicle is stolen and will attempt to recover it.Īs is often the case, your vehicle may be recovered quickly. However, your vehicle's license plate and VIN were immediately entered into our department's citywide stolen vehicle list, as well as a state and nationwide stolen vehicle database even before a report was written. It may take longer if it is unusually busy, or detectives are temporarily reassigned to respond to a significant event. If you reported an Auto Theft, please understand that the report entry and transfer process takes up to two days upload from the field to the Auto Theft queue where we can assign it.