The Construction Industry Crime Prevention Program of the Pacific Northwest and the National Equipment Register recently announced a partnership to help contractors prevent and recover from the growing problem of equipment theft.
At the 7th CICP annual awards luncheon, Glen Sider, operations director of NER, and Karen Blythe, executive director of CICP, explained to CICP members how registering their equipment with NER, a national database used by law enforcement to identify the true owner of suspicious equipment, can help in the recovery of stolen equipment.
In a seminar Sider explained how registration can also help deter theft where an NER decal shows a potential thief that the equipment is registered with NER. A separate training session for local law enforcement was also conducted by NER to explain how NER’s equipment experts and databases of stolen equipment and equipment ownership can help speed up and crack equipment investigations.
“We have been working with NER for some time now and are pleased that we can formally offer NER’s services to our members,” said Blythe.
