Safer neighbourhoods

We're working with neighbourhoods across Gwent to protect you with forensic property marking technology, and help you keep your property safe and secure.

• we’ll visit communities across Gwent to encourage you to become Safer Neighbourhoods

• we’ll advise you on the best way to keep your property safe and secure

• we’ll encourage you to mark your property with SmartWaterTech invisible forensic technology, which we’ll provide (working with community councils)

• we’ll display signs throughout Safer Neighbourhood areas, stating that property is securely protected with forensic technology.

Why?

• offenders tend to return to a neighbourhood which they’ve already entered, and where they’ve already committed crime: we want to break that pattern

• it’s been proved that offenders are less likely to target a community which is security protected and displays ‘Safer Neighbourhood’ signs

• it’s less likely that offenders will target property which is protected with forensic markings

• UV and forensic marking makes it easier to connect offenders with a specific crime and secure a conviction – and to return property to the rightful owner

• these actions will help prevent offenders from targeting neighbourhoods, and make our communities safer.

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