NER Launches Equipment Theft Prevention Web Site

The National Equipment Register (NER) will no doubt soon be a Law & Order spin off. As a division of ISO Crime Analytics (that sounds so cool), NER announced today the launch of a new industry Web site. The portal (www.nerusa.com) is intended to improve efforts to coordinate the fight against heavy equipment theft and offers a variety of free services to help equipment owners and their insurers combat the problem.

The new site features an interactive map that gives visitors the ability to visually analyze theft patterns throughout the United States, the opportunity to register to receive alerts about equipment stolen at a regional or national level, monthly and annual theft pattern analyses and a quarterly equipment security newsletter.

In addition to the free services offered through the Web site, NER has developed an online portal for its IRONcheck service. For a fee, used-equipment buyers or sellers can request a search of the NER database by serial number on any used piece of heavy equipment they are considering buying or selling.

Equipment owners, insurers and law enforcement can continue to use the Web site to report equipment thefts. Equipment details are reviewed and quality-controlled by NER’s team of analysts and theft alerts sent. The loss details are made available to law enforcement 24 hours a day through the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB). We have to assume you can even enlist the help of Jack McCoy.