One or two license plates are stolen on average every day in Bremen.
According to a police spokesman, 660 thefts of license plates were reported in the past year.
The figures would be on the same level as in previous years.
In Lower Saxony, on the other hand, a downward trend is noticeable, said a spokeswoman for the State Criminal Police Office in Hanover.
Bremen / Hanover - In 2019 several thousand license plates were stolen, in 2020 and 2021 only a few thousand.
The worst affected are Hanover, Osnabrück and Braunschweig.
In most cases, the stolen license plates would be mounted on another vehicle in order to be able to commit crimes - for example fuel fraud or driving without a driver's license.
To prevent theft, the Bremen police recommend attaching the license plate to the vehicle with special security screws.
dpa