WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE i1gK 19 80, PAGE 5 Operation Proviident cornes to Whitby By MICHAEL KNELL Free Press Staff Catching thieves will be a lot easier thanks to five young people who wll provide Whitby businesses with the means to identify Makarucha, project leader, the object of Operation Provident is to, "deter van- dallsm and theft." "We hope to do 2,000 te 3,000 businesses this sum- mer throughout the region, is a new program that was ritai i' ed last year and that it will "take some time before the true effects corne to light" although he is op- timistic about the program . He also said that Durham "lIt has a lot of prospects," Hobbs says. "It is a deterant for the thief not to take the articles." He said that the final goal of the program is to reduce the number of break in thef- ts and that this is the "first national crime prevention program of this magin- tude." "lIt is a great in- vestigational tool for the police officer," Hobbs says because the program allows for stolen goods to be iden- tif ied properly. Hobbs says that about 270 businesses in. the region are presently in the Operation Provident program and echo of Makarucha's hopes that 3,000 more will be added this summer. He stressed, however, t.hat this is a back-up to the security systems that business presently employs. It is also to deter one of businesses biggest problems, internai theft. Because the department is pushing the program it should not be taken that break and entering is oc- curing in Durham in epidemnic proportions Hobbs indicated. "Breaking and entering is always a problem,'? HOBBS SAYS, ADDING THAT IT 15 "4no more of a problem here than in any other municipality.", One reason why the program was lntroduced was because there has " 1neyer been anything for the business comunity," he says. Homeowflers caù partie- pate ini a sîrniliar program called Operational Inden- tif ication. Hobbs says that Operation Provident is a Iltarget bar- dening preventive progam."Thatis making the thief's potential targets harder to steal. "If you make the target harder to get to, the chances of theft are lower, " he says. Wintario wishes you many happy returns! These young people will be canvassing Whitby's business community over the next few days to protect them against break and enter thefts. Each of them will go to neighbourhood business te register them for Operation Provident, a federally sponsored program to mark valuable equipment, se that if it is ever stolen it will be easy to identify and return to the owner. Showing the group how to operate the engraver is progect leader Cathy Makarucah. Surrounding her are Liane Gross, Margaret Barber, Charlene Aird, Brenda Fitzgerald. Another participant in the program, Brenda Drew, was not available for the photgraph. -Free Press Staff Photo. any of their equpment in cases of break and enter. Under the aupises of the Federal Ministry of the Solicitor General, they will supply, free of charge, idenity numbers to businessmen under a programn called Operation Pzrevident. Each of these young people, hireci under the Summer Youth Em- ployment Program '80, will supply these businesses with a number that they can engrave or stamp on their equipment. Only their business will have this numnber and should anything ever be stolen, it can be traced back to them through the Canada- wide police computer net- work called CPIC. The business can even borrow one of the Durham Regional Police Force's fivE engravers for a 24 houi period without charge. The number that the business is given and recor- ded on equipment will be kept on record at the police departmnent. According to Cathy starting in Whitby," Manakrucha says. Sgt. 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