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‘My £30k car was stolen – I tracked it on my phone and police told ME to go and get it’ | UK | News

‘My £30k car was stolen – I tracked it on my phone and police told ME to go and get it’ | UK | News

A woman tracked her stolen £30k car using an app but claims police told her to pick it up – and officers would “meet her there”. Alexandra Vlad woke on the morning of February 6 to find her Lexus UX gone from her drive in Newham, East London. She immediately checked a tracking app on her phone and discovered the last location in Hackney – around six miles away. So Alexandra, 32, called the police and gave them all the information – but alleges she was then told to go there to get the car. She says the whole ordeal made her feel “unsafe”. Alexandra, who works in corporate finance, said: “I was more shaken by the experience of dealing with the police than the car being stolen itself. I told them what happened, and that I could see the last location of the engine. They told me they wouldn’t be there for at least an hour. It was a dodgy part of Hackney. I felt unsafe.” Alexandra says the police advised her to go …