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Help End Auto Theft (H.E.A.T.) |
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Vehicles displaying the HEAT decal on the front windshield and rear
window are clearly identifiable to law enforcement officers throughout the state
as being registered in this anti-auto-theft program. Registration in HEAT and displaying the decals means the vehicle
owner gives permission to any law enforcement officer to stop the vehicle
between the hours of 1:00 am and 5:00 am, to identify the driver as one of the
persons registered by the owner as having permission to drive the vehicle.
If a HEAT-stickered vehicle is stopped by a law enforcement officer at
3:00 am and the vehicle operator or occupant is NOT one of the drivers listed on
the HEAT registration, the officer will then check further to see if the Registering Your Vehicle with HEAT Portland residents can register their vehicles with the HEAT program at the police department during regular business hours. There is no charge for the program. |
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vehicle
has been stolen. In some cases, officers have stopped vehicles with the HEAT
decal, discovered an unauthorized person was driving, contacted the registered
owner who, only then, learned the vehicle was missing and had been stolen. More
than one Texas officer has called an owner in the middle of the night, only to
have the owner insist his vehicle was "in the driveway", when, in fact, the
vehicle and the car thief were with the officer.