When i purchased my new plus 8, that is what i had to pay in the first year. Second year was £800 and subsequent years £350.
Guess they dont like new aero's.
That's at least a glimmer of hope that the premiums will drop dramatically!
Did they insist on a Tracker? My frustration about this insistence is that there was a point in time not so long ago when Police Scotland had very few/if any vehicles fitted with the necessary hardware to actually track a Tracker (inside info from my recently retired Traffic Cop brother). I've actually made a FOI-type request to them to provide me with details of how many cars are fitted with it, how many are on the road in a normal shift pattern and how many properly trained operatives are there.
Re trackers....when I worked in our police ops room the tracking companies did the actual tracking initially, updating the ops room. There was a plan to get direct tracking from police cars or by the ops room as part of "going smart" by utilising new digital equipment linked to mapping systems etc but still under the planning stage when I retired 2 years ago. There were trackers in police cars so they could be seen on our mapping with progress showing movements.
One thing that surprises many people is that watching many TV series gives the impression that police can get instantaneous info or location details etc. This is largely artistic license to enable the plots to progress! Yes, a lot can be done but not as easily as the TV/film directors like to portray. Please don't raise your expectations so high as the reality is often less able to achieve due to technology, budgets, etc. ANPR...a great tool that is being expanded. Insurance/Mot/DVLA info...already available. Tracking....in development.
