I own a very desirable classic car from the fifties. While away on holiday an attempt was made to steal the car from our house. Fortunately, the would-be thieves were prevented by our sophisticated alarm system and were soon caught by the police. Under questioning the thieves admitted that they had been paid to steal my car by third party crooks. They also admitted that my car’s keepership address was obtained from the DVLA. The police in charge of the case told me that any Tom, Dick or Harry can get access to the DVLA database and that this information is being severely abused by the criminal community. High value cars are seen in the street and the crooks just trace their keeper addresses from their plates. I think it is outrageous that the DVLA helps crooks. I am registering all our cars to my company’s addresses and not to my private address and I have raised the matter with my local MP.