- Make sure your valuables are marked with a unique number or serial number
- If there is no serial number on the item, you can borrow our electric engraver at no charge. Ideally, a serial number should have four or more numbers or letters on it.
- Record any serial numbers of property owned and save it somewhere safe
- We will give you decals to put at the front and back of your house warning burglars that valuables in your home are marked
Protect Your Valuable Property
We created Operation Identification to help you protect your valuable property and prevent break-ins to your home.One of the best ways to prevent a break and enter is to mark your valuable property with a unique serial number and tell any would be thieves that your property is marked. Marked property is more difficult for criminals to sell and if we locate your marked property it helps us determine that you are the owner. Every year we recover large amounts of stolen property that we auction off because we do not know who owns it.
Where do I get the electric engraver?
- Our Community Services Unit will let you borrow it at no charge
- Just come down to our station and sign it out. You will need to bring one piece of government issued photo ID. Call ahead to make sure the engraver is available.
- Mark your valuables with the engraver
- Return the engraver
My marked property was stolen...what now?
- Find the serial numbers of the stolen items
- Contact us to report the crime and provide those serial numbers
- If we find your property, we will know you are the owner and will get it back to you