Interior Secretary Angelo Reyes, NACTAF chief, has vowed to continue the campaign until car theft syndicates have been "neutralized" and their activities eradicated.
In statistics obtained by The STAR, only six vehicles were stolen in November, three of which were forcibly taken from their drivers.
The number was only about 2.22 percent of the total 37 incidents reported in July, when the campaign was first launched.
Reyes said several other government agencies have taken part in the anti-carjacking campaign to achieve the government’s holistic approach to solving the problem.
"We want to cripple the carjacking industry by addressing not only the problem of neutralizing carjackers and carnappers, but supply and demand reduction in term of demand and supply for stolen vehicles and spare parts from stolen vehicles," he said.
"We are approaching it in a very holistic manner."
A number of suspected car thieves have been arrested during the almost five-month operations, he added.
A month after NACTAF focused on car thieves, the number of stolen cars dropped to 30 in August, five of which were forcibly taken from their drivers.
Last month, the Traffic Management Group also intercepted and killed three suspected car thieves — Brian Dulay, Anthony Cu-Unjing and Francis Xavier Manzano — in an alleged shootout in Ortigas, Pasig City.
However, the family of the slain suspects maintained that the three were just victims and had nothing to do with the alleged carjacking.
Of the 37 vehicles stolen in July, 14 were forcibly taken as the cars were traveling on the highway or while their drivers were about to get on board.
In September, of the 20 cases of car thefts, half were forcibly taken by armed men.
In October, only 14 vehicles were stolen and six were forcibly taken.
Earlier, Reyes said: "We have seen the worst already, we are now addressing the problem in a more holistic manner and I’m confident that we will succeed.
"Our timetable is that by the end of Christmas season we shall have reduced it (the threat of carnapping and carjacking) to a large extent."
Reyes has also ordered police to monitor and stop the sale of auto parts taken from stolen vehicles.
"So there is a need for us to work together in order to reverse this trend," he said. "Let’s make it a high-risk, low-profit industry."
Reyes said carjacking incidents decreased by 44 percent this year compared to 2004 as government agencies turned up the heat on crime syndicates.
Police have reported 579 incidents of carjacking from January to November this year compared to 638 cases reported during the same period last year, he added.
Reyes said 48 percent of the incidents occurred in Metro Manila, with Central Luzon and Southern Tagalog placing second and third in the incidence of stolen vehicles.
"There was a decrease and it’s a big reduction," he said. "We must cripple the industry of carnapping and carjacking."
The Land Transportation Office has requested the TMG to inform them of stolen vehicle incidents within 24 hours so the LTO can immediately include these vehicles in its alarm system.
Assistant Secretary Analyn Lontoc, LTO chief, said this will allow the agency to scrutinize vehicles suspected of being stolen when their purported owners attempt to apply for registration.
Reyes said the NACTAF will head the anti-carjacking drive, and sought the support of various government agencies and car manufacturers.
Reyes, who chairs the task force, asked the agencies and assemblers to share information with NACTAF operatives in order to identify not only carjacking syndicates but also those who facilitate the processing and sale of stolen vehicles.
Quezon City was the first local government in Metro Manila that mobilized legitimate auto parts outlets in the crackdown on the sale of stolen car parts.
Quezon City’s strategy, implemented by the local police under Chief Superintendent Nicasio Radovan Jr., resulted in raids of establishments along Banawe street and other parts of the city and the seizure of truckloads of stolen auto parts.
Reyes said the LTO, Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), Maritime Industry Authority, Department of Justice (DOJ), Bureau of Customs, local government units and the Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers Association of the Philippines have agreed in principle to share information with NACTAF.
Lontoc said her office will help in the identification of stolen vehicles through the LTO’s database.
BIR commissioner Jose Mario Buñag vowed to field personnel to check whether items sold by secondhand car parts dealers were not taken from stolen vehicles.