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leeds
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Location: West Yorkshire
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Vehicle Marking, West Yorkshire Police Report post
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Tuesday, 27 January, 2015
Calderdale Police are hosting a free Land Rover marking event on Saturday (31 January).
Officers will be at Appleyard Road, Mytholmroyd, Hebden Bridge, (HX7 5PE) from 10am until 1.00pm and anyone with a Land Rover Defender, Land Rover Discovery 4 and Range Rover Sport (pre 2013) are encouraged to attend the event.
A mechanic from Land Rover Copley will also be in attendance to help.
Last year the force launched Operation Emporia to combat an emerging issue of Land Rover parts being stolen - particularly LED headlamps but also doors, mirrors, bonnets, wheels, clusters and grills.
It had an immediate impact with 14 people arrested and the number of thefts fell.
"The operation was a considerable success but we are not resting on our laurels and are continuing to take the fight to thieves," said DCI Steve Thomas of Calderdale CID.
"If property is security marked it means that if stolen and subsequently recovered officers will be able to return it to the rightful owner.
"It also means that if we stop a vehicle and then check the marking we can make sure that the part is on the car it is meant to be."
Taken from http://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/news/fr...den-bridge
Brendan
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 27th Jan 2015 3:50 pm |
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Crost
Member Since: 29 Jan 2013
Location: Croston, Lancashire
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Why not the D3???? Mark
Remember its only an obsession....
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Original Beanie Narpy Grill, Black lettering, De-Tango'ed, Side steps, Hids LEDs upgrade, Halo DRL, Smoked side repeaters, D4 Bluetooth upgrade, Flacks magic with the fault mate, Upgraded D4 compressor, ERG's blanked, Tints, D4 rear lights, Short rails & cross bars, LR Ladder. Reversing camera (needs activating!!)
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| 27th Jan 2015 3:53 pm |
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leeds
Member Since: 30 Aug 2010
Location: West Yorkshire
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It is a press type release.
Do you expect anything coming out of a press office to be 100% accurate?
Turn up with any Land Rover and I am sure they will mark it.
Brendan
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| 27th Jan 2015 3:56 pm |
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fishinmad
Member Since: 30 Jan 2012
Location: St Ives
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An extremely good initiative IMHO fair play to them.  Club Narpy Torch
“No return to boom and bust†Gordon Brown when chancellor
He has been proved right, now there is only bust!
Last edited by fishinmad on 27th Jan 2015 4:14 pm. Edited 1 time in total
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| 27th Jan 2015 4:08 pm |
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leeds
Member Since: 30 Aug 2010
Location: West Yorkshire
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Why not contact your local police commissioner/police station/main LR dealer and see if they could do something in your area.
Local main LR dealer offers a bit of their car park on a Saturday morning, teas/coffees etc. Good PR and helps local LR community.
Must be worth a couple of phone calls/emails in your area surely ??
Brendan
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| 27th Jan 2015 4:12 pm |
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lespes
Member Since: 17 Sep 2009
Location: Sitting Down
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Very proactive
Messes the system up though when private no. regs are used D4 Landmark MY16 Santorini Black THE LAST
D4 HSE MY12 Marmais Teal: Gone. Missed a lot!
Freelander 2 SD HSE MY11 Silver:Thankfully gone.
D4 HSE MY11 Silver: Gone missed !
Range Rover Sport MY06 HSE Buck Blue: Gone missed!
Discovery D2 TD5 Facelift MY Red Gone Missed!
Discovery D2 TD5 Cobalt Blue: Gone Missed!
Discovery D1 Auto Oxford Blue Not missed at all!
Discovery D1 Avalon Blue First LR! missed!
Now demoted to a VW
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| 27th Jan 2015 4:35 pm |
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WOODY179
Member Since: 01 Jun 2005
Location: Chesterfield
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They will probably be using something like this.
https://www.selectadna.co.uk
Chesterfield police marked my car with it back in 2011. They mark the car up in a few places to show you how to use it and then let you mark it elsewhere in your own time. The beauty of this type of kit is that it does not matter what the registration number of the car is, the dna is always registered to the home address of the owner - if you sell the car, you have to send a change of owner card in.
The kit I was given, allowed me to mark all the electrical equipment in the house too, you get plenty of stickers to say that everything is DNA marked
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| 27th Jan 2015 4:40 pm |
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fishinmad
Member Since: 30 Jan 2012
Location: St Ives
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lespes wrote:Very proactive
Messes the system up though when private no. regs are used
It still lets the police ask the right questions. Club Narpy Torch
“No return to boom and bust†Gordon Brown when chancellor
He has been proved right, now there is only bust!
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| 27th Jan 2015 4:57 pm |
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MattTheTall77
Member Since: 24 Oct 2013
Location: Lincs
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Silly question of the day, will the car need washing first? 
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| 29th Jan 2015 8:59 am |
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Farsco
Member Since: 07 Sep 2013
Location: Douglas
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No, tippex sticks to anything 
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| 29th Jan 2015 9:03 am |
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Farmer Chalk
Member Since: 07 Mar 2013
Location: Independent Republic of Kentishshire.
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It really depends on what the Force are marking it with....probably the best is that used by Datatag or Retainagroup....
Datatag are the company that won the industry tenders to deliver the CESAR plant and machinery marking, the MASTER motor cycle marking and now the new COMPASS boat and engine marking schemes...they are probably the best known and the ones with the best industry standards....they have just introduced a UV etch marking which is brilliant......designed for use on motorbikes it etches the paint but is invisible in normal light....i.e. It doesn't ruin the paintwork with ugly markings on your Ducati...but when shown UV light lights up like a beacon....
Retainagroup are the company who do most of the OEM window laser etching using a code rather than a registration number.....
Then there are lesser marking companies using data dots and dna type paint markings... Although good they do not allow an officer to identify a vehicle in the street...the officer has to take a scraping or have a microscope to read the dot....which in reality isn't going to happen....
So to answer your question...it would help with a clean car but the places they are likely to apply these markings would normally be hidden from view and thus more likely to be dusty rather than dirty. They should not be marking in an area of high use....
Going round your vehicle with an indelible marker can be just as effective......
Obviously the better kits are more expensive but you pays your money.... I personally have CESAR markings on all my horseboxes and car trailers and the Datatag UV etchings on my bikes...if it's good enough for JCB and John Deere and BMW Honda and Suzuki.......
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| 29th Jan 2015 9:20 am |
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astonbuilder
Member Since: 29 Sep 2006
Location: MIDLANDS
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I'd want something visible on any vehicle I had marked not an 'invisible' matrk visble by UV light or such like.
My motorbikes had datatag markings etched into key parts and panels, didn't look out of place to me and as an alpha-numeric system used no probs on private reg numbers
Think this is a really good initiative though and credit to those involved
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| 29th Jan 2015 11:56 am |
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Farmer Chalk
Member Since: 07 Mar 2013
Location: Independent Republic of Kentishshire.
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Unfortunately there is an equal number who didn't want the markings messing up their bikes.... And the OEMs were very resistant....the good thing now is the fact that the major deterrent is that most new motorcycles are fitted with the Datatag systems where the thieves now realise that all components on a bike are now traceable .....which is a landmark and stops the bike theft as a result....
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| 29th Jan 2015 3:59 pm |
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Snow White
Member Since: 16 Aug 2012
Location: Mid Norfolk
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Alot of people put chassis numbers on rather than number plates.
Chassis number will always stay with the vehicle reguardless of how many personalised plates are put on the veh.
Chassis numbers can be (sometimes) easier to trace  RRS HSE 2012 Stage 1 remap, timed heater General Grabbers
Blue D3 with winter pack, xenon lights, Geoff's engine performance upgrade, egr's blanked, mega flushed gearbox, 3 new wishbones, RLD sump guard, V8 brakes front and rear, General Grabbers. Rock/tree sliders. Now gone
Defender 90 tray back, 3 winches (with one or two other subtle mods) Now for sale
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| 29th Jan 2015 9:46 pm |
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astonbuilder
Member Since: 29 Sep 2006
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virtually all parts on the car have 'marking' as such even just a manufacturers date stamp and the sheer volume of legal compliant traceable parts makes it pretty easy to see if it looks a wrong 'un on a different car. Some parts are traceable to the build sequence, VIN number, date, shift, operator, etc. etc.
Not security in the truest sense but useful on 'rung' cars and cut'n'shuts under investigation, etc.
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| 30th Jan 2015 1:27 pm |
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