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About Us

IAATI is the International Association of Auto Theft  Investigators. This association was founded in the USA in 1952. Since 1990 we have an European Branch (EB-IAATI) with members from 33 countries.

The membership is made up from representatives of serving and retired police-officers, custom officers, insurance companies and their investigators, vehicle rental companies, car leasing companies, members of the vehicle licensing organizations, vehicle manufacturers, lawyers and many others with a legitimate professional interest in vehicle investigation, prevention and education.

For members only we have our forum meant to exchange knowledge, to ask other members for advice or assistance and to start a discussion forum about subjects related to vehicle crime or other subjects of interest for IAATI members. Members of the European Branch are automatically members of the world wide IAATI association.

EB-IAATI is established under the Belgian Law and comes under the status of “International non profit associations “. View the constitution >

The organization is run by the board of directors, who are elected from and by the members. View our board members >

Every year, at the seminar, an Annual General Meeting (AGM) is organized where all members can vote for the members of next year’s board, including the President. The president can be re-elected once. Other board members can be re-elected as long as they volunteer for the job. Within the board, committees have been formed for subjects like finance, membership,  sponsoring, etc. Each year a seminar is organized by the seminar committee, in cooperation with a committee that is formed locally in the country where seminar will be held that year. Apart from the seminar for the members of the European branch, a so called “International Seminar” is organized every year.

Members are free to put items on the agenda for the next AGM. Members can – at least a month in advance – send their proposals to the executive director.