Thames Valley police have released figures which they claim demonstrate their determination to crack down on people who get behind the wheel without car insurance or a valid licence.

According to the data, 6,031 vehicles were seized in the first eleven months of 2008.

Chief Inspector Gill Wootton said: "The sheer number of cars seized so far this year shows how determined officers are to get unlicensed and uninsured drivers off the road."

It first became possible for road policing officers to take vehicles without the necessary legal documentation during a pilot scheme in February 2006.

The initiative was considered a success and as a result the same authority was awarded to forces across the UK in October of the same year.

Meanwhile in related news, 47 motorists may now find it more difficult to secure cheap car insurance, after they were stopped for speeding in an operation run by Thames Valley police in Windsor and Sunningdale earlier this month.

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