Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking with the National Infrastructure Crime Reduction Partnership to share intelligence between police forces relating to catalytic converter thefts.

The National Vehicle Crime Working Group - chaired by the National Police Chiefs’ Council lead for vehicle crime, ACC Jenny Sims - met on 20 September 2021, with Home Office officials in attendance. The group is taking forward work across a number of themes, including working in collaboration with affected manufacturers on how best to tackle catalytic converter theft.

The National Infrastructure Crime Reduction Partnership provides national co-ordination of policing and law enforcement partners to tackle metal theft. It hosts a crime mapping dashboard to share intelligence between police forces to target offenders, and implements crime prevention measures. The Partnership has provided specialist training to police forces, local authorities and Environment Agency officers on metal theft and catalytic converter theft.