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Thieves beware! Operation Hands Off launched in Nelson.
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Global Bike Registry to takle Bike Theft!
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Bike Thieves beware! Bait Bikes Are Everywhere. Steal one, Go to Jail!
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IMPACT launches Bait Cars, Trailers, ATV's and Boats throughout the Kootenay's
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BC Solicitor General announces expanded Bait Car program to include trailers, motorcycles, ATVs, boats and general property.
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Car Thieves warned Bait Cars will be part of PNE!
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MicroDot marking incrases recovery by 91% as compared to 52% for unmarked vehicles.
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Police seeking suspect in thefts from bait cars.
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Caught by bait car camera twice, Police look for suspect
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Bait Cars take gold in car theft crackdown
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Delta Police Hunt for Suspect Captured on Bait Car Video - Do you Recognize him?
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ToolHound Gets Hands On with Operation Hands Off!
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Auto Theft takes dive during Vancouver’s Olympic Games!
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Car Owners Win as Auto Crime Plummets during Games
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Edmonton Builders impose tracking program to catch thieves.
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CTV Edmonton, Home Builders team up with police to help stop theft at construction sites
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Police credit bait car program for drop in car thefts during Olympics
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RCMP Langley - Olympic Bait Car Strategy Catches 2 Car Thieves
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Langley - deux voleurs d’auto appréhendés grâce à la stratégie de voitures-appâts déployée dans le cadre des Olympiques
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B.C. government announces strategy to mitigate auto theft during Olympic Games
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B.C. government announces strategy to mitigate auto theft during Olympic Games
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Olympic bait set out for car thieves
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British Columbia To Protect Public Transit During 2010 Olympics
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Bait cars will be out in force during Games
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ICBC-BAIT CARS ON GUARD TO PROTECT GAMES-GOERS' VEHICLES
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Solicitor General - BAIT CARS ON GUARD TO PROTECT GAMES-GOERS? VEHICLES
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Video - Olympic bait set out for car thieves, top 10 wanted list released
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Expert: Crime rate to drop during Olympics
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Vancouver police expand bait car program for Olympics
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Tiny dot technology is latest B.C. crime tool in theft from autos during Games
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Anti-car theft technology debuts at Games - MicroDotDNA Technology
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Olympic bait set out for car thieves, top 10 wanted list released
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DNA-sensing cameras in bait cars target auto thieves
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Operation Hands Off Unveiled in Edmonton-Edmonton Police, Crime Stoppers Association of Edmonton & Northern Alberta and MicroDotDNA technology launch Neighborhood Crime Prevention Program
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Police look for assitance with $17,000 Electronics theft from leduc Composite High School.
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Canadian Crime Stoppers Association in cooperation with Norco Performance Bikes, Bicycle Trade Association of Canada and MicroDotDNA Technology launch National Bike Registry under "Operation Hands Off!"
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Bicycle Trade Association of Canada partners in national Bike Registry.
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Operation Hands Off officially launched to introduce a National Bike Registry.
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Norco Performance Bikes endorses National Bike registry.
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Crime Stoppers presents local crime prevention workshop.
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Operation Hands Off launched in Surrey, BC as a joint program with local businesses and RCMP to deter commercial property theft.
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Yamaha and the National Theft Reduction Council announce a 24% reduction in motorcycle theft.
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Copper theft poses significant threat to national security
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In search of the Unstealable Bike-over 3000 bikes were recovered from a local bike shop.
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Thieves likely caused house explosion. Culprits stole copper pipes but forgot to turn off the gas, preliminary investigation finds.
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Copper theft could have been deadly when thieves stole copper gas lines from a popular tavern on a busy Saturday night.
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Prime minister tackles chop shops, car thieves proposed new auto law.
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As metal prices head skyward, thieves are ripping off supplies at electric utilities, construction sites and homes. Toronto even has a "copper" cop.
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South African Police Service and the South African Insurance Association see results "According to statistics supplied by BAC and SAIA (SA Insurance Association) this has resulted in an 81% reduction in theft compared to vehicles in the same catagory, since Microdot technology has been introduced to these vehicles. It has also resulted in a 91% improved recovery rate by the SAPS on these vehicles"
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Returning Stolen goods to owners tough task. Edmonton City police say they will be lucky to return 10% of $280,000 worth of property recoved due to lack of identification.
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Cops smash $300,000 Stolen Goods Operation Edmonton City police recover hundreds of items stolen from Edmonton companies.
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New Security Measures Being Introduced by Epcor Kilometres of copper cable being installed in the latest LRT extension have become a prime target for nighttime thieves as the price of the metal soars.
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South African Insurance Reports Favorably on microdots Buisness Agains Crime South Africa reports 87% decrease of theft and increase recovery rate of 91%.
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Ford Performanc Vehicles Implements MicroDot FPV enhances powerful SUV with striking design. The vehicle?s security is also enhanced with the fitment of FPV?s Id MicroDot Identification.
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Subaru's Third generation Includes MicroDots as Standard Equipment Standard features on the WRX STI include pop-up headlight washers; and anti-theft alarm system and immobilizer; MicroDot security, and a 3 year unlimited km warranty.
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Copper Theft Not Only Illegal It's Deadly The arrest of a man and teenage boy for copper wire and pipe thefts on Toronto-area construction sites is the latest in what authorities see as a growing theft problem.
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Florida Police bust $100M retail theft ring. An organized retail-theft ring was brought to an end after an extensive investigation involving several law enforcement agencies.
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Thieves Target Copper From Construction Sites, Utility Poles Spurred on by skyrocketing price of copper, some thieves in the Edmonton area have been targeting construction sites where the metal is used, police say.
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Integral Energy Implements MicroDot to Deter Copper Theft Integral Energy has joined forces with CrimeStoppers and other utilities to call for public sukpport to report copper theft and other vandalism of important community infrastructure...
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Hydro One Tries 'MicroDotDNA' to foil copper thieves "Ontario's largest electricity supplier is investing in 'MicroDotDNA' and other security measures to stop thieves who have already stolen $1.5 million worth of the utility's copper grounding wire so far this year, risking their lives and customer blackouts in the process."
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Energy Networks Association Implements MicroDot Program The value of stolen copper and the cost of replacing stolen copper is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for some distribution businesses.
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Oncor Uses Nanotechnology in Fight Against Copper Wire Theft "Oncor Electric Delivery will implement a new technology this summer that will both discourage would-be criminals from stealing copper from the company's substations and switchyards and help law enforcement personnel find and prosecute thieves."
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Canadian Power Company Uses Technology to Deter Theft. To combat the burgeoning problem with scrap copper theft, NB Power, based in New Brunswick, Canada, has implemented a MicroDotDNA technology that it feels will sharply reduce the theft of copper wire.
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New Brunswick Power implements new technology to deter copper theft. MicroDotDNA, as known in the industry, is effectively like DNA for property,With DataDot there will be no mistake as to where the copper came from."
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NB scrap metal dealers will be taught to spot the dot NB Power and the RCMP announced a new stategy this week to fight copper theft in the province.
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NB Power unvails new tehnology to fight theft of valuable copper. NB Power has unveiled technology it hopes will deter thieves from swiping valuable copper. MicroDotDNA Technology.
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Yamaha Motor to Launch "World Insurance First" at Melbourne Boat Show "The country's leading outboard and PWC distributor Yamaha Motor Australia announces a new insurance product that is only available through its national dealer network."
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Taking aim at copper thieves - page 2 NS Power, in Canada, demonstrated Monday, June 21, how it will use the new technology, known as MicroDotDNA, to combat copper theft.
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Taking aim at copper thieves. Spray will help NSP identify copper wire. NSP will use the new technology known as MicroDotDNA, to combat the risen theft of copper.
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NS Power to halt copper thefts NS Power has come up with a plan to discourage the theft of copper from 300 substations.Copper thieves are also putting their lives and the technicians lives in danger.
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NSP will try to pu halt to copper theft Nova Scotia Power has come up with a plan to discourage the theft of copper from its 300 substations by using microdot technology.
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NS Power using new technology to fight copper theft NS Power is steeping up the battle against an increasing amount of copper theft by using microdot technology to mark and identify equipment at substations and other electrical facilities in the province.
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Keeping Copper Thieves at Bay Nova Scotia Power Inc. is going high-tech to try deter copper theft.The utility is using a technology called MicroDotDNA to mark and identify its copper wire because of safety concerns over the growing crime.
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New Zealand Government confirms mandatory whole of vehicle marking.
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Vehicle marking will reduce vehicle theft Whole of Vehicle Marking (WOVM) will help to reduce vehicle crime and enhance police investigations.
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Hydro lost millions from theft, damage last year Hydro lost millions from theft damage. Three thieves died and one badly injured during heist.
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Distributor Achieves Stunning Drop in Theft Rate One New Zealand vehicle distributor has managed to get theft of its models down to virtually zero at a time when car theft has jumped 15.5% to become the nation's second biggest crime.Subaru puts the stunning reduction in theft down to microdots no bigger than a grain of sand.
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The search for solutions to metal theft The price of metals, largely driven by China's voracious appetite for them, has made nearly anything made of metal a target for theft. People are fighting back with regulations and technology.
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Theft Deterrents Angling For Industry Support MicroDotDNA, available in Canada for the past three years, uses microdot technologys a theft deterrent. Unique PIN numbers can be invisibly applied to valuables using an adhesive in aerosol or paint form. Those PINs, along with any property serial numbers, can then be registered on the Microdotdna database which is accessible by police over the Internet.
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Press Release La Capitale General Insurance Targets watercraft, caravan and motorhome market.
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A Technogeek With a Conscience. MicroDotDNA Technology has formed a National Bicycle Registry Program,whereby any bike owner who uses the MicroDotDNA technology will be registered in the system. As early as March this year, there will also be a consumer Internet search page, allowing a buyer of a used item to check the item in the registry to see if it might have been stolen.
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Techno plants foil thieves The same technology used to deter car thieves is stopping the theft of hundreds of plants from Brisbane's parks and streets.
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BC Hydro to use Dots Thieves raiding B.C. Hydro installations last year - three of whom died while one was badly injured - cost the crown corporation millions of dollars in stolen property and damages.
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Copper thieves cost company millions - BC Hydro Thieves raiding B.C. Hydro installations last year - cost the Crown corporation millions, an official said Wednesday.
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A Million Little ID Tags. Unmistakable indentification keeps car thieves from your ride.
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Metal Theft: A United Fight Lower Mainland devises a model for theft deterrence that other communities aim to emulate.
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New Technology helps citizens fight crime. Citizens On Patrol (COP) has found a partner in their pursuit to end crime and raise funds at the same time.
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How you can Protect your belongings Law enforcement in Western Kentucky had what one detective called a "difficult task" on their hands. Almost a week after they found truck loads of stolen goods they have to figure out who it all belongs to. What can you do now to protect your property?
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Wielding Force of Microdots Against Rural Crime. A national initiative to spread a million microdots across farm property is being launched to fight rural crime.The initiative aims to help farmers and their families avoid facing personal risks when confronting intruders, and to cut the theft of possessions that are at high risk.
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Four Corners on "Car Wars" By the turn of the century Australia had one of the worst car theft rates in the world.The cloning of vehicles is a new chapter in an old story.
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