Every year the police in England and Wales recover millions of pounds worth of seized goods including bikes, garden tools, computers, jewellery and clothing. Unfortunately, a lot of this recovered stock is never returned to its original owners meaning it’s destined for the police auctions.

One of the best ways of ensuring that your possessions WILL be returned (if they’re stolen) is to have them ‘Property Marked‘! This is done simply either with a UV pen, Alpha Dot or Compound Stencil Kits. At Crime Prevention Products we have a vast array of Property Marking Kits ensuring that all your valuables are protected, and in the unfortunate event of a theft are returned to their rightful owner.

In recent years the Police, Community Wardens and Crime Agencies have recovered millions of pounds worth of stolen goods. These goods simply sit in a warehouse waiting to be reclaimed by their rightful owners, however, with virtually no chance of tracing the owners they are eventually sold off at special auctions.

Property marking is a method of simply marking all your valuables with an identifying signature so they can readily be identified when recovered. Here at Crime Prevention Products we supply a vast range of property marking products that can help identify your valuables and products in case the unthinkable happens.

Recent news about the Police Force cuts, no doubt, has a few people concerned about the rise in crime, especially burglaries and opportunistic theft in residential areas. Property Marking Kits and pens can be used, quickly and effectively, to help trace back any possessions that may have been stolen. Normally marking your possession with your postcode is ideal for quick identification.

Using Property Marking kits on your valuables can also have a positive effect with your insurance company – normally, reducing insurance policy costs. Lets be honest, it is an almost impossible task for the Police Force to return stolen goods to their rightful owner – if they haven’t been property marked. Unmarked, unclaimed, stolen goods normally end up in a Police Auction house and will be sold for a low price, way under market value.

There is also the emotional aspect of having a personal item or possession stolen. How do you explain to a kid that their brand new bike is missing? The days of thinking that once it is stolen, you’ll never see it again, are in the past.

By using Property Marking Kits, you have documented that particular item as belonging to yourself, and if that item is stolen and recovered by the Police then they can quickly establish that it is stolen property and return it to yourself and also charge the individual(s) they obtained it from with theft.

Every year millions of pounds worth of goods simply ‘walk off ‘ due to the forgetfulness of their owners, however, on a positive note the Police have recovered hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of goods on organised raids, seizure of goods and simply finding discarded items. Property Marking is a fantastic way to ensure that your stolen goods don’t end up at a police auction for unclaimed possessions.

Using property marking will ensure that all your recovered items will prove proper ownership.

Christmas brings no let-up in home burglaries. Your more likely to see an increase in robberies as people are out spending their hard earned cash on presents for their loved ones then hiding them in sheds and garages – till it’s time to collect them on Christmas Eve. New bikes, new scooters, motorised jeeps etc.. all hidden under blankets & boxes and placed at the back of a garage or shed in an attempt to disguise them.

If you are going to be placing your Christmas purchases in your garage or shed then you have to make sure that your security measures are up-to-date. Fitting a good garage or shed alarm should be at top of your list of things to do before you decide to place any valuables in them.

If you think that your shed or garage has enough protection then what about the products themselves? Property marking is a effective way of marking your possessions by use of a UV property marking pen which can only be seen by the use of a special light, if your property is stolen and recovered then this is the ideal way to let the authorities know who exactly it belongs to.

Police Community Support Officer Nigel Wass said: “This was the perfect opportunity to come along and have your property security marked. Not only will this assist us if we ever have to trace the owners, but it will also act as a deterrent to anyone thinking of stealing it.”

Bicycles, Mobile Phones, IPODs, Playstations, Satellite Navigation Equipment, Garden Equipment and electrical goods are all targeted by criminals and getting them properly marked up will help in the fight against crime and prevent recovered property gathering dust in police stations!

Obtaining the correct type of property marking equipment is easy if you buy online where there are a selection of tools from simple Permanent UV Marking Pens (including specialist pens for marking documents, glass & clothing etc.)

There are even Complete Property Marking Kits for protecting just about everything on the car, motorbike oe in the home.

There is also a selection of UV Lamps available for making the UV marks visual! which is really handy for checking that you have marked your property with the invisble UV ink correctly.

There is a useful website where people can also register their valuables at www.immobilise.com which helps reunite people with lost and stolen property.