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Property theft costs Ireland an estimated €1.4 billion every year, with around 66,000 burglaries and related offences. Gardaí recover hundreds of thousands of euro worth of stolen items each year — but too often there is no way to identify the rightful owners.

Property Marking Ireland fills that gap. We run a community-led crime prevention programme in partnership with An Garda Síochána, the Department of Justice, Community Safety Partnerships, Community Alert and Neighbourhood Watch. The higher the proportion of households and businesses in a community that take part, the more effective the deterrent.

The programme works by permanently etching the owner’s Eircode onto property — a unique identifier — and displaying signage and stickers that signal to thieves the area is property-marked. The mark is made by an industrial dot-peen machine that embosses small dots in the pattern of your Eircode into metal, plastic, wood or leather. It cannot be sanded off, painted over or removed.