Serial Numbers: E-mail them to Police for Safekeeping

With one easy step, Citrus Heights residents can ensure the return of their flat screen televisions, iPads or X-boxes if police discover them while making an arrest. 

Citrus Heights Police department officials continue to offer their free serial numbers tracking system to residents. By e-mailing photos of their electronic devices and their corresponding serial numbers to myproperty@citrusheights.net, residents' property can be instantly identifiable by police. 

Oftentimes, Citrus Heights Lt. Ryan Kinnan explained, property owners are hesitant to engrave their names on their high-end electronics. With the new program, residents don't have to deface their property. 

"We come across property all the time," said Kinna. "And if we don't have the serial numbers and everything proving that it belongs to them, then we can’t give them their property back."

Discovered serial numbered-items can be run in the police database and returned to victims. While helping themselves, residents will also be helping the police arrest suspects for possession of stolen property. 

In turn, residents using the program are encouraged to let officers know immediatly if items are stolen. 

"If someone became a victim of a theft of a computer ... they could reference us back to this website so we could search this website and find the information they are looking for," said Kinnan. 

For more information also visit the Citrus Heights Police department's website. 

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