Thieves want your number / Hemel Hempstead Today, 24 May 2007
http://www.hemeltoday.co.uk/news?articleid=2905374
"Vehicle number plates are becoming very popular with thieves in the Hemel Hempstead area. Police today warned number plates are the second favourite item for thieves who steal from vehicles (currently 13% of all items stolen) and this has prompted officers to issue prevention advice and ask people to report any thefts to them straight away. In the first four months of this year 294 were stolen in Hertfordshire, 37 of them in the Dacorum area."