Interior ministry launches campaign against car theft

The interior ministry has launched a campaign aimed at curbing car-theft. The main message which will appear on radio, tv and on billboards across the country urges car owners to do more to secure their vehicles. Last year the police registered 14,000 stolen cars, meaning that a car was stolen every forty minutes somewhere in the Czech Republic. The police say that very often people themselves are to blame since they do very little to prevent theft, not having an alarm installed at the outset or leaving their car unlocked when they go to shopping malls and supermarkets.