DNA branding on your property: the new crime prevention

I have looked at various DNA brand kits and have summarized my findings here. As this is not an advertisement, I have excluded trademarks and trademarks.

Prices range from £ 10.00 to around £ 50.00 and it really is all about “you get what you pay for”.

The DNA brand kit which is priced at £ 9.99 is an inexpensive looking felt tip pen, the kind you buy for your kids as a disposable. The real deterrent is the label that warns a potential thief that the property is marked with DNA.

The pen does not have a nib as such; the busy end looks like fiber wadding where the felt tip ink would be and carries a transparent medium that transfers its DNA to the property to be marked.

The ‘DNA mark’ is invisible. How would the Police find an almost invisible mark? You might ask. The creators suggest; “The client tells the officer to get a 10 or 15 X magnifying glass and a strong flashlight and shine the light at a 45 degree angle where the few microns of depth of the mark can be made to appear.”

There are some serious flaws, such as police time and logistics. If the police discover multiple DVD players in the home of a known burglar, they will most likely scan him with a black lamp for UV proprietary markings, but his invisible DNA will not show up. You probably won’t see your property returned.

However, there could be a series of happy coincidences, like when you tell your local town Bobby that you’ve been robbed and that all of your property has your DNA on it. or 15X magnifying glass and strong torch light and shine the light at 45 degree angle, see your secret mark! Good old fashioned British Bobby in his prime. Sadly, Dixon from Dock Green is gone.

There are cost implications in recovering the DNA and turning it into evidence, the Forensic Science Laboratory does this and the police are faced with the bill (pardon the pun).

They will likely opt for traditional property recovery techniques, such as showing the thief “he’s a fair cop” and asking him to physically identify your property with serial numbers, photographs, or even receipts.

The £ 9.99 kit is available through a network of people who have paid £ 10 for a ‘license’ to sell the DNA brand kits locally. Resellers are not subject to security checks and can purchase their business opportunity through online auction sites and other advertisements. 10 pounds get them into the security business!

One product recognized by the police is the Smart Water Tracer, designed for the protection of household and household goods, as well as business assets. The unique forensic fingerprint is virtually invisible to the human eye. However, it fluoresces under the UV light that police use as a standard and is virtually impossible to remove completely.

The cost is around £ 45.00 and it claims to reduce the risk of theft by up to 83%. The police support SmartWater as it has enabled them to obtain a 100% conviction rate in court. The kit also includes warning labels to deter thieves and it only takes 20 minutes to mark the property in a typical home.

The options are to spend £ 10 on the unknown or £ 45 on a commercially recognized proprietary marking kit.
Return to the DNA tagging kit. For around £ 50 there is another DNA property marking kit, this one is UK Secured By Design accredited, not easy to come by and very important. This also comes with warning stickers, the unique DNA resides in a special glue bottle to apply to your valuable property items. Once this glue is applied, removing the entire DNA mark from an item is nearly impossible. It is invisible to humans and can only be located with an ultraviolet lamp and DNA debris will easily stay in cracks and uneven surfaces.

The added benefit is that the DNA code along with customer details are kept in a secure database approved by LPCB (The Loss Prevention Certification Board) and allows the recovered property to be traced back to the owner after analysis. Forensic testing will detect even a small molecule of glue and can be used to determine who the item actually belongs to.

There is a DNA printing kit that sells for around £ 40 with a patented and technically advanced UV product that is saturated with selected sequences of DNA strands embedded in the security ink. By simply placing your fingerprint on the objects you want to protect and / or writing your personal code or number on them with the DNA UV security writing pen, you will have the peace of mind of knowing that if an item is lost or stolen, and later recovered , can be scanned by the DNA UV detector to illuminate their invisible marks and prove their ownership.

This DNA printing kit has more items than the others mentioned, the kit includes …
DNA UV Security Ink Pad for DNA marking hundreds of objects with your personal fingerprint, DNA UV Security Writing Pen is designed to invisibly write your personal information that can identify you as the owner, UV DNA detector with ballpoint pen to illuminate invisible marks. Inventory ledger to record the location and type of invisible marks placed on your property. And tamper-proof labels to alert police that recovered items are labeled with UV DNA security markings.

The DNA was used to protect all merchandise licensed for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, the work of famous artists such as Joe Barbara (The Flintstone’s) and Thomas Kincaid and owned by a major film studio. It was also used to protect items from athletes like Mohammad Ali and Mark McGuire’s famous 70th home run.

Now you can take advantage of this cutting-edge technology to protect your property with an indisputable identification.