Tracing and tracking serve different purposes. Tracking determines where property is located, while tracing connects an identifiable object to its owner. Discover why this distinction matters for theft prevention, property recovery, and returning lost or stolen valuables.

A 1972 Congressional Record reveals the extraordinary claims surrounding a pioneering property identification program. On March 13, 1972, Representative Les Aspin of Wisconsin introduced federal legislation intended to expand a burglary prevention program that had...

It's not possible to develop an effective Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP) unless every fixed and non-fixed asset, the world round, is marked, as per NASA, with a "human-readable [...] Unique Identification Number (License Tag)." [NFS 1852.245–74(b), NFS...

According to the FBI, attacking the incentive to steal is something alarm systems, security cameras and GPS/WiFi systems don’t do well. That’s because security-minded people are missing a key detail for arresting and convicting criminals: the need to mark valuables, records serial numbers and post warning signs.

The following is a literature review entered into Chat GPT to find articles that show measurable reductions in property crimes using Operation Identification and related marking systems. Burglary decreased 33% in Seattle and about 25% in St. Louis among participating...

Operation Identification, the companion to Neighborhood Watch, was, and remains, a critical part of the five pillars of crime prevention, which also includes neighborhood associations, National Night Out and 911.

Think of the Louvre jewel heist and what went wrong and how it could have been even worse. Did CCTV, alarms systems and security guards work? Could there have been injuries and deaths? It's not usually thought of as a security system and it's no longer front-of-mind...

Subscription-free and no-contract security systems are difficult to find. Virtually all security systems come with some sort of subscription or contract associated with the product. Without a subscription or contract, only limited features of the product are...

In the 1960s, Orval Davis was the chief of police in El Monte California. In the aftermath of the Watts riots, El Monte residents and the El Monte P.D. banded together to form the El Monte Police Department Technical Research and Development Commission. Of the many...

[This post is a transcription of the following PDF. We have made every effort to be as accurate as possible.] Virginia Operation Identification Guide | Office of Justice Programs: 82367NCJRS.pdf Virginia Operation Identification Program Guide, 1981 I. Introduction...