With crime being one of the top five priorities of Government, criminals have been warned that they will start to feel the heat of a much stronger approach to crime. Today in Kroonstad, on the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) Military Base, a once-off live vehicle explosion was conducted by BACSA in conjunction with stakeholders including the South African Police Service (SAPS), the Department of Transport (DoT), the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS), the Vehicle Security Association of South Africa (VESA), Nissan South Africa (Nissan SA), Microdot suppliers in South Africa (Recoveri Dot) and others did very much the same thing with explosive results.

A SAPS boarded vehicle was loaded by the bomb disposal unit with 20 kg of high explosives and detonated at 7800 metres per second with a resultant heat of 3,000 degrees Celsius. The purpose of this test in front of a number of select media, business representatives and service providers was to prove the resilience of the microdot technology as a form of durable whole-vehicle marking and vehicle identification.

Fouche Burgers, BACSA Project Manager within the Violent Organised Crime (VOC) workgroup with a focus on vehicle crimes and vehicle robberies in particular, explains the benefits of the technology as an effective component within a comprehensive strategy to reduce the unacceptably high level of vehicle theft and hijacking in the country.

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