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Crime Prevention Film for Window made by Sumitomo 3M cannot prevent sneak thief


Government executes Watching Out Rousing to industry because it doesn't demonstrate crime prevention performance


By JCPRESS

The National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan (NCAC) that had done the product test that broke the crime prevention glass and the crime prevention film for glass window announced on February 4 that the crime prevention film made of Sumitomo 3M Limited has peeled off from the glass window.

The number of cases of the sneak thief and theft that invades the dwelling has increased for these several years in Japan. Many of the means are "Glass breaking. "

When the NCAC tested the crime prevention products to which demand had risen because of an increase in the theft, the crime prevention film made of Sumitomo 3M did not demonstrate a prescribed performance.

And, the crime prevention film did not fill the crime prevention performance standard that the government and the industry group had set.

The National Police Agency, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry requested three industry groups to have to reconfirm whether the crime prevention film made by Sumitomo 3M had the crime prevention performance February 4, and executed the watching out rousing reacting on the test result.

A industry group Industry Association of Japan Window Film Manufactures showed the view with "It takes time to a result turning out though we investigated the cause" to the coverage of JC-Press concerning the problem that "Crime prevention film" made by Sumitomo 3M had not filled voluntary standards.

This industry association made an excuse about the test result , saying that "It is necessary to consider the problem in construction".