CESAR - Plant Registration

The CESAR scheme

The CEA is acting as lead organisation for the CESAR plant registration scheme at the invitation of the Plant Theft Action Group (PTAG) - and Datatag is the service provider. Registration, combined with Datatag's technology, both deters theft and makes recovery of stolen plant more certain. CESAR is a voluntary scheme and manufacturers can elect to fit the CESAR kit as standard or as an option for their customers. Alternatively, they may nominate their approved distributors to undertake the fitting on new equipment and that already in operation.
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Thames Valley Police Boost CESAR Fitments
Thames Valley Police has launched a new plant and rural crime reduction initiative involving CESAR. The initiative is aimed at reducing the theft of expensive agricultural and construction equipment in the area. In the six months from December 2009 there have been 115 incidents of tractor and plant theft in the Thames Valley area. To encourage people to adopt the use of the CESAR scheme Thames Valley Police are offering to pay 20 per cent of the fitment cost, meaning equipment can be protected for £109.

Lincolnshire Police Promoting CESAR
The Lincolnshire Police Auto Crimes unit are showing their support for the CESAR scheme by promoting the official equipment security and registration scheme on one of their police vehicles – a Land Rover Discovery. Lincolnshire is one of the hot-spots for tractor thefts, which is why the police are promoting the CESAR scheme to farmers, farm contractors, and agricultural equipment dealers around the county.

Stolen Machines Recovered from Poland
Three stolen machines are on their way back to the UK thanks to their unique CESAR “fingerprint” and Datatag technology. Police in Poland suspected that two JCB telescopic handlers and a JCB backhoe were stolen, but as the thieves had removed every single trace of identity and “cloned” the machines with a new identity; the police could not prove it. But Datatag technology and CESAR registration quickly identified that all three machines had been stolen, from leading plant hire companies, in the South East of England in 2008 and 2009. The machines are now the property of the insurance companies who settled the losses. JCB were one of the first of many major manufacturers to adopt CESAR and they have been fitting the system to UK machines for three years.

Latest Developments
For all the latest CESAR information visit www.cesarscheme.org.

CESAR Enquiries
CESAR hotline: 08450 700440
Email: enquiries@cesarscheme.org
www.cesarscheme.org

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