Crash for cash insurance scams 623/2025

FOI Reference: 623/2025

Request:

I am requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding convictions related to 'crash for cash' insurance scams within your jurisdiction. Please provide the following data for the period January 2020 – December 2024.

Please provide the total number of convictions for offences where the primary modus operandi was identified as a 'crash for cash' insurance scam (e.g., staged road traffic collisions, induced collisions, or ghost collisions for fraudulent insurance claims). This should include convictions for offences such as, but not limited to, fraud by false representation (Fraud Act 2006, Section 2) or conspiracy to defraud.

It is understood that 'crash for cash' may not be a distinct statistical category within your records. If direct figures are not available, please provide data for the closest relevant offence categories where this type of fraud was the identified underlying activity. The request seeks aggregated, anonymised statistical data, not personal details.  

Response:

I can confirm that there is no information held by Dyfed-Powys Police due to the fact that zero (0) records were identified when ‘crash for cash’ key words were searched by our data engineers.                                               

It should be noted that as a result of the systems adopted by Dyfed-Powys Police in relation to the recording of such information that the information released may or may not be accurate.

Furthermore, it should also be noted that Police forces in the United Kingdom are routinely required to provide crime statistics to government bodies and the recording criteria is set nationally. However, the systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the crime data. It should be noted that for these reasons this force's response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other response you may receive.

(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 12/08/2025)