Welsh Communities Benefit From Crime Prevention Kits

Residents from two disadvantaged areas in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, are receiving crime prevention kits that will aim to deter offenders and make both communities safer.

SelectaDNA property marking kits have been accessed through funding from the Home Office’s Safer Street Fund by Police and Crime Commissioner Dafydd Llywelyn.

The funding of £195,673 that was secured by Mr Llywelyn will go towards measures proven to cut crime and will include employing two Community Wardens, environmental improvements and the purchase of community crime prevention kits including SelectaDNA and BikeRegister.

More than 1,200 kits will be distributed to residents within the communities of Ty Isha and Glanymor. The SelectaDNA kits are property marking kits that include a unique formula of DNA, UV tracer and microdots, which people can use to mark their valuable household items, so that if it is stolen and recovered, police are able to trace them.

Similarly, the BikeRegister kits include stickers, frame markings and microdots to uniquely identify a bike. The marked bike is then added to the BikeRegister database, which has over one million bikes registered to it. Bike owners can add descriptions and photos to ensure that in the event of a theft, their bicycle can be easily identified and returned by police through the BikeRegister scheme.

Dafydd Llywelyn, Police and Crime Commissioner for Dyfed-Powys said: “I am delighted that both these crime 
prevention kits have been purchased through the Safer Streets funding that I secured earlier this year. Hopefully, as 
they are distributed over the coming weeks, we will see that they will have a positive impact within the area. Criminals 
know that DNA is the police’s most powerful weapon in convicting criminals therefore the DNA fear-factor is highly 
understood and acts as a huge deterrent."