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Originally Posted by Derek
It will show if the car is running on cloned plates for a start. It also can give indications of where the car has been that can prompt further questioning, give clues about the existence or otherwise of insurance and give rise to questions / intelligence about the driver that lead to other crimes.
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What does a tax disc record about the driver? Answer: Nothing.
What does a tax disc record about the car's *current* insurance status? Answer: Nothing.
And as for the validation stamp from the post office indicating where a car's been, that's nonsense since on line taxation came in as all online tax discs have the same stamp.
And as for cloned plates, do you really think someone using cloned plates would bother with valid tax in the first place?
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Originally Posted by Derek
Uh huh. Because a check of a car has never turned up drugs, weapons or that the car is stolen.
Unless they aren't real crimes in your eyes of course.
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And what fires off most of these "checks"?
Is it Dixon of Dock Green checking the tax discs of parked cars?
Or is it the ringing bells of the car mounted ANPR kit checking cars as they go past...