Police-Initiated Vehicle Recovery

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/26/009484/E

Version Date: 27/02/2026

The Southwest Regional Procurement Department and the Alliance Roads Policing Department have provided the following information:

Police-initiated vehicle recovery/removal means any instance where the police request, direct or authorise a vehicle to be removed/recovered and/or taken into storage (including to a police/contractor compound) under the force's vehicle recovery arrangements. This includes evidential/seizure removals and non-crime removals (e.g., obstruction/abandoned/uninsured).

Questions

1.         Type of arrangement: Which best describes your current vehicle recovery provision?
a)         Single prime contractor (managing agent) with subcontractors
b)        Direct contracts with multiple providers (not a framework)
c)         Other (please describe)

Managing Agent

2. Prime / managing agent (if applicable): If your arrangement includes a prime contractor/managing agent, please provide the company name.
   
   Automobile Association Development Limited.
3. Recovery providers used by the force: Please list the company name(s) of the recovery provider(s) that your force/service uses for police-initiated vehicle recovery (i.e., providers your force/service instructs directly or pays directly, and/or those subcontracted by your prime contractor / managing agent).

• A.R.Bromfield & Sons
• Cannon Commercials Ltd
• Enfield Auto Recovery Ltd
• Field Services
• Fourwinds Garage
• Highfield Garage
• Horne Park Garage
• Kingsbridge Auto Repair and Rescue
• Pannell Commercials
• Slades Garage Ltd

4. Vehicle disposal providers: Please list the company name(s) of any provider(s) your force/service uses to dispose of vehicles arising from police-initiated recovery, including where vehicles are auctioned, scrapped or broken for parts.
   
   If disposal is not part of the recovery arrangement, please state this.
   
   Combellack
5. Contract dates / procurement: For the recovery arrangement (and disposal arrangement if separate), please provide:
   a) contract start date (or call-off start date)

1^st November 2025

b) contract end date

31^st October 2029

c) any extension options (e.g., number and length)

None.

d) where recorded, the planned date for the next tender/procurement exercise.

No information held.

6. Vetting / screening requirements (contractual):
   a) Does your contract/specification for police-initiated vehicle recovery require contractor personnel to hold any specific vetting or screening as a condition of working on this contract (e.g., police vetting, DBS, right-to-work checks)? (Yes/No)

Yes

b) If yes, please state the required level/type in broad terms and whether it applies to:
recovery drivers,
ii.         vehicle compound staff,
iii.        control room staff,
iv.        contract management staff.

Level NPPV 1 and this applies to all of the above.

c) If the requirement is not specified by role, please state the single minimum requirement that applies to all contractor personnel (or the closest equivalent recorded requirement).

Not applicable.

Please provide high-level contractual requirements only; no operational detail about vetting processes or systems is requested.