Project Safe Plate on tomorrow in Woden

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ACT Policing will be holding Project Safe Plate tomorrow in Woden - with the aim of reducing number-plate theft by providing free tamper-proof screws to motorists.   

From 9.00am to 3.00pm tomorrow (Saturday, 15 October 2022) motorists can bring their vehicles to Marist College on Marr Street, Pearce where ACT Policing members and Neighbourhood Watch volunteers will be on hand to fit number plates with free tamper-proof screws.   

Officer in Charge of Woden Police Station, Acting Inspector Mark Watson said 1,310 registration plates were reported stolen last year and over 500 plates have been reported stolen in the past four months alone.    

“Today is a great opportunity to come down to Marist College and get your plates secured with free tamper-proof screws. We’ll have a drive-thru arrangement where you don’t even have to get out of your car – police and volunteers will fit them while you wait,” said Inspector Watson.    

“Our Project Safe Plate event in Belconnen in April saw more than 450 cars fitted with tamper proof screws, which I am hoping to beat tomorrow. Replacing stolen plates is both frustrating and an additional cost for motorists that is generally not covered by insurance.” 

Car thieves are known to steal number plates and place them on stolen vehicles in an effort to avoid police detection. Those stolen plates are also used to disguise the real identity of a vehicle when it is used in other crimes such as petrol drive-offs and burglaries.   

If mororists are not able to attend tomorrow, free tamper-proof screws are also available at any ACT police station.     

Safe Plate Event  

  • Marist College Canberra 

  • Marr Street, Pearce 

  • 9.00am to 3.00pm tomorrow (Saturday, 15 October 2022)   
     

Media enquiries 

Police Media — (02) 5126 9070, act-police-media@afp.gov.au 

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