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Citizens News, August 24, 1977
Pane 19
Police start cottage security
R. W. Wilson, P.C. 3629
Community Services Officer
Due to the high rate of cottage
break, enter and thefts
throughout the Province, the On-
tario Provincial Police have
launched a "cottage security
program" coupled with "opera-
tion identification",
These programs are being con-
centrated on the cottages south
of Goderich to the Grand Bend
area this summer, by the
Goderich Detachment.
OPP Community Services Of-
ficer for Huron County, Bill
Wilson, is presenting the
programs to the cottagers in a
group preferably.
The "cottage security
program" involves a pamphlet
which explains what to do when
you leave your cottage as far as
security of property in the cot-
tage and the building is concern-
ed. A window sticker indicating
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the exact location of the cottage
as to lot and concession, etc,,
owner and address, police phone
numbers and information as to
what to do if damage, entry or
theft occurs, is' issued to each
owner of a cottage.
The pamphlet is informative
but the window sticker with OPP
insignia and information is not
only a deterrent to break and
enter but if anyone needed the
fire department, ambulance or
police, the address and exact
location of the cottage is there
for expedient service.
"Operation identification" is
then explained to the cottagers.
This is the process of marking
personal property and items in
your home or cottage so that if in
the event the goods are stolen
and recovered, you can identify
your property and get it back,
but the main idea is that stolen
property has to have an owner
before the thief or receiver of the
stolen property can be charged
and convicted of the offense
against you.
Without looking, can you give a
complete description of your
wrist watch, satisfactorily
enough to convince a judge that
it is yours??? ... So it is with
most possessions. Most people
could not identify their own
property and if this property was
to be stolen we, the police, would
be unable to return it to you when
recovered if proper identity
could not be obtained from you
... the thief wins again!
The OPP are promoting the
use of a relatively new marking
device called the "Brinks Securi-
ty Marker". This pen writes with
an invisible fluid which can only
be detected by a special device.
Every detachment of the OPP
and most police departments
now have these detecting
devices.
Of course the electric marking
pencils . are still available to
anyone, free of charge, at the
Goderich Detachment, to mark
your property.
Your property should be mark-
ed with a driver's licence
number preferably and the
province or state with it. If this
number is used, your property
can be identified anywhere in
North America. If just initials or
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