The Owner Locator Assistance database is a proactive law enforcement tool. Our database enables law enforcement agencies to recover a higher percentage of stolen property and return the property to the rightful owner.
The Owner Locator Assistance database helps insurance companies reduce the percentages of their losses. Because stolen items can be found so quickly by law enforcement, personal claims will not be filed.
The Owner Locator Assistance database gives citizens a chance of quickly recovering their personal property, often sentimental items.
- Law enforcement wins
- Insurance companies win
- Citizens win
- Criminals lose!
It is common for law enforcement officers to stop a vehicle either for a traffic violation or simply due to suspicious activity. The officer approaches the vehicle and notices there are several household articles in the back seat or back of truck and the driver and or occupants of the vehicle are somewhat nervous.
The officer radios in the articles to the dispatcher: the make, model and serial number of each article. The dispatcher's response in the majority of the cases will be, "NO RECORD FOUND" in the criminal database.
- The owner has not returned home to learn of the theft.
- The owner never recorded the identification of the property to report to law enforcement.
Having received the response that the property is not recorded stolen, and having no probable cause to seize the property, the officer must release the subjects and the property.
With your property recorded in your private database through the Owner Locator Assistance database, the response will change to, "THIS PROPERTY IS OWNED BY JOHN SMITH OF 19211 SENOIA RD, MACDONNA, TX 78008 with contact number (123) 456-7890".
When law enforcement discovers and returns stolen property immediately, the insurance company has saved time and money by not having a claim.
As a result, our database aids in eliminating the possible increase in insurance premiums, as well as reducing claims from being filed through insurance companies.
In 2007 alone, many citizens fell prey to a reported 6,568,572 larcenies or one of the reported 2,179,140 burglaries committed in the United States at an estimated loss of $10,100,000,000.00 (billion) in property value. These values increase each year.
Citizens win by protecting themselves. You can accomplish this by registering with Owner Locator Assistance and recording property in your own private database.
Now that you have taken the right step toward protecting your property and maintaining your private database with newly purchased property, you will be assisting police agencies in recovering your property through Owner Locator Assistance.
The Owner Locator Assistance database is designed to protect your privacy.
- Only law enforcement personnel will be given inquiry access into the Owner Locator Assistance database.
- Law enforcement personnel can only inquire about a specific article. In order to make this inquiry, he must furnish three (3) identifiers: (a) type of article (b) brand and (c) the serial number or the owner applied number (OAN). / PID# generated by the database.
Once law enforcement personnel enters the required three identifiers into the system, if this particular article has been recorded with Owner Locator Assistance then the agency will be given specific information pertaining to the property owner.
The property owner still maintains his rights to privacy; law enforcement personnel do not have access into other property information. The only information the agency will retrieve is the rightful owner's name, address, telephone number and an emergency telephone number if provided.
Every 3.2 seconds: One Property Crime
Every 14.5 seconds: One Burglary
Every 4.8 seconds: One Larceny-theft
Every 28.8 seconds: One Motor Vehicle Theft
NCIC public records show that the retention period for stolen articles is:
D. Gun file: a. Unrecovered weapons will be retained in file for an indefinite period until action is taken by the originating agency to clear the record. b. Weapons entered in file as "recovered" weapons will remain in file for the balance of the year entered plus 2.
E. Article File: Unrecovered stolen articles will be retained for the balance of the year entered plus one year.
HOWEVER, Owner Locator Assistance retains property indefinitely until the owner removes the article from file.
Our concept in Owner Locator Assistance database is the same as that of vehicle registrations. So many times during my career as a law enforcement officer, I would hear of a vehicle being recovered before the owner was even aware the vehicle was missing.
Do not confuse Owner Locator Assistance database with other online databases that offer maintaining your personal effects but do not offer quick links to law enforcement agencies. Owner Locator Assistance is linked for instant results.
Check to see if your agency is listed. If it is not, e-mail us and we will contact them immediately to offer our FREE crime detection software.