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Property theft is one of the biggest security challenges in Ireland today. Every year within every community in Ireland households and small businesses experience the trauma of being a victim of theft or burglaries.  In addition, every year hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of stolen property is recovered from the hands of criminals, but all too often there is no way of identifying its rightful owners.

Property Marking Ireland has a solution! This involves a community led crime prevention program run in partnership with the county-based Joint Policing Committees, Local Authorities and community organisations, particularly Community Alert and Neighbourhood Watch groups. This approach has already been tested in a number of counties in Ireland and in the UK and has been found to be very successful. It has been found that the higher the percentage of households and businesses in the community that participate, the more effective the programme is.

The program involves marking property with the owner’s Eircode number, which is a unique identifier. and displaying a sticker on the premises to show that household’s or businesses participation in the program. The mark that is made on the property is a physical mark which is etched into the property. It is very difficult to remove and can be repeated a number of times on the one item. The mark is made by a specially-designed machine which embosses the property item with small dots in the pattern of your Eircode.

Please note that Property Marking Ireland is the sole supplier of the property marking machine in Ireland