In simple terms, if you want your stolen property returned to, mark it.

There are a variety of methods in which you may mark property for crime prevention and detection. Visible property marking may offer a crime prevention element and act as a deterrent where the criminal sees the mark and chooses not to steal the property.

Engraving

Engraving & chemical etching are popular property marking methods. They do cause disfigurement to the item and clearly effects any resell value. Simple visual clues are post codes/zip codes; others might be a registration or serial number that can verify ownership of property via a database.

Labels

A range of labels in the form of stickers and plates, affixed by glue or chemically bond to the item contains the important information to identify the owner or the database where the owners’ details are recorded.

Such labelling may be tamper-proof labels that cannot be removed without extreme damage or visible evidence of identification removal. High technology allows for anti-counterfeiting properties incorporated within the label such as holograms.

Bar Codes

We see barcodes on almost every product we buy but linear bar code that complies with international recognised standards can divulge security information when read by a bar-code scanner. Ensure the code is secure and a specialist scanner is used to read the bar code Read the rest of this entry »

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Spending the day or weekend on your boat is one of the pleasures most boaters look forward to all the time. Unfortunately, the marinas where vessels are stored at are just as susceptible to crime as our homes and places of work, if not more so. Criminals prey on two facts. (1) Many boats are left alone for days and weeks at a time and (2) when a boater heads out onto the water, criminals know that they have more than enough time to burglarize their parked car.

With that being said, it becomes important for boat owners to learn some common-sense practices for keeping the property on their boats and in their vehicles as safe as possible. Listed below are five steps that boaters can take to help protect their property from crime.

1. Mark It
This is a proven deterrent and you will have a better chance of having your property returned if it is stolen. Etch or engrave an identification number, such as you vessel ID number, onto all of your valuable items. This will enable authorities to trace lost or stolen items back to your vessel. Also, enroll in a crime prevention program, like Boat Watch USA. It is free, and you receive a Vessel ID decal which includes a warning for all would be perpetrators to avoid your vessel. Place this decal where it can be easily seen from the most common spot your vessel is boarded from. Boat Watch USA also offers smaller Boat Watch USA warning decals to affix prominently to your major equipment. Read the rest of this entry »

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We should always stay alert to the potential of crime and unwanted violent attacks. It is a violent world we live in today. Many crimes are “at random” crimes and can happen to anyone at any time. The very nature of some of these crimes today is very horrific and just seems to keep getting worse. No one is immune to crime. One way of preventing crime as a whole is for each and every one of us to do their own part individually to protect themselves against crime. My goal is to try and put some form of non-lethal self-defense weapons in the hands of as many people as I possibly can. I am hoping that more people will be willing to play an active roll in crime prevention. And one of the best ways to stop crime from happening is to carry a non-lethal, incapacitating form of self-defense with you wherever you go and keep it very close at hand in case an emergency situation should arise and you need to use your self-defense.

There are many non-lethal types of self-defense available to carry that will allow you to incapacitate an assailant temporarily and not permanently. You can have the advantage of stopping an attacker without actually taking their life. And when you stop an assailant from violently attacking or robbing you, you have also helped to lower the overall crime statistics in our whole society. This means that you are also doing your part to help prevent crime. And at the same time you may be saving your own life or at least saving yourself against great bodily harm, assault, robbery, aggravated battery, rape, abduction, etc. Lowering the overall crime statistics in our society sounds like something that everyone might want to get in on.

I know that I would really appreciate seeing a cut down in the outrageously high number of crimes, missing persons, kidnappings, abductions, amber alerts, assaults, aggravated batteries, robberies, home invasions, etc. You can easily look up some of the numbers in crime statistics reports such as the FBI crime statistics reports. The numbers of crimes each year in America alone is staggering. It Read the rest of this entry »

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