Its possible they are doing it because there has been a spate of number plate thefts to clone a similar vehicle. Someone suggests doing this to stop them getting nicked and word spreads so they all copy like sheep.
Answer is of course fit tamper proof fixings. Around West Yorks. the police set up a free fitting service of these fixings but I think its now ended.
On a slightly different theme but related, I have noticed locally a few mainly VW Golfs and Polos that are late models on early plates i.e. 2017 Golf on a nothing special 53 plate. Again its to make them disappear on NPR and compliance cameras, of which there are hundreds round Bradford. Told most cars are hired and used by criminals, or those not entitled to drive, and the plates come off a cloned car or are stolen. They are not bothered that the plates only loosely relate to the model as its not being sold on and will go back on its original plates when it goes back to the hirer.
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