Having your car nicked is one thing, but then you're branded a loser - by this unsympathetic crime prevention film about car theft

Talk about adding insult to injury: it's not enough to have your car and its contents nicked, you have to be branded incompetent by a Central Office of Information film. Here the case studies are fictional, but the detailed back stories built for each character mean that if you can put yourself in their shoes, then you too are a loser. From the heart of the economically troubled 70s, this film brands "auto crime" one of Britain's most successful industries.

A crime prevention film in which four cases of car thefts are enacted and
analysed for cause and prevention of loss. These are summarised as windows,
properties and locks - the three areas of prevention by the car owner.