On the 24th July 2017 a West Midlands based hire company hired out a JCB 8030 excavator to a local business who were later found to be ‘bogus’ and quickly disappeared without trace, taking the JCB and other goods obtained through fraudulent hire with them. Once the hire company realised what had happened they quickly … More DATATAG AIDS RECOVERY OF STOLEN JCB
Nick Mayell, Datatag’s Police Liaison and Training Officer, gave valuable assistance which enabled a North Yorkshire constabulary police officer to identify a stolen Bomag roller. In late March Nick Mayell received a call from PC Ben Astin, who had recently attended one of the accredited AITS police training courses which Nick teaches, after he pulled … More NICK MAYELL ASSISTS OFFICER IDENTIFY STOLEN BOMAG
When the Police find a machine they believe to be stolen but which has been completely stripped of any identifying marks there’s only one person they turn to – Datatag’s resident Sherlock Holmes, Nick Mayell. Nick has decades of experience sniffing out the truth when it comes to plant and machinery and anything he doesn’t … More DATATAG CALLED TO HELP IDENTIFY RECOVERED JCB
As the official CESAR Scheme enters its tenth anniversary year CESAR exhibited at LAMMA 2017. The popular two-day agricultural event in Peterborough attracted over 15,000 visitors per day. The CESAR Scheme is the official security initiative of the CEA (Construction Equipment Association) and the AEA (Agricultural Engineers Association) which uses an array of Datatag security … More CESAR’S 10TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR BEGINS AT LAMMA
Interpol – the largest international police organization in the world with 190 member countries – in collaboration with the Spanish National Police and Datatag, has been providing training on illegal vehicular traffic and how to stop it in the port of Algeciras. The course has been aimed at agents working in the field to advance … More DATATAG AND INTERPOL DELIVER TRAINING TO FRONT LINE OFFICERS
When Interpol call you know something’s up. And so it was in October this year when Datatag’s Nick Mayell received a call regarding a Caterpillar 972. Interpol were assisting the Spanish police in identifying a suspect machine and had drawn a blank so turned to Nick for help. With years of knowledge in this field … More DATATAG QUICK WORK ASSISTS INTERPOL WITH PLANT RECOVERY
The 100,000th machine to be fitted with CESAR security and registration rolled off the JCB Loadall production line at Rocester, Staffordshire yesterday. The JCB 541-70 Loadall was fitted with an appropriate CESAR triangular tamper evident registration plate with the distinctive alpha-numeric registration mark 10OO0O (one, zero, o, o, zero, o). JCB was one of the … More JCB BUILD 100,000TH CESAR REGISTERED MACHINE
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