NICB's Chula Vista office at 891 Kuhn Drive in the Eastlake area houses the Foreign Operations division of the National Insurance Crime Bureau, the nation's not-for-profit organization dedicated to detecting, preventing, and defeating insurance fraud and vehicle theft since 1912. The Foreign Operations unit at this location coordinates cross-border stolen-vehicle repatriation through the San Ysidro and Otay Mesa ports of entry, working with VIN databases maintained by area dealerships such as Mossy Nissan Chula Vista to verify title authenticity on recovered vehicles. NICB was formed in 1992 from a merger of the National Automobile Theft Bureau (established early 1900s) and the Insurance Crime Prevention Institute, and today operates with more than 1,200 member property-casualty insurers and nearly 400 employees across regional offices nationwide. Investigative data shared from this Chula Vista location feeds into ISO ClaimSearch®, an industry-wide claims database that helps carriers and salvage operations such as Import Auto Wrecking flag VIN discrepancies and identify stolen-parts trafficking. The bureau's Hot Wheels report tracks the ten most frequently stolen vehicle models nationally by NICB region, and its Hot Spots analysis maps metropolitan areas by theft frequency per capita, data sets that San Diego County law enforcement agencies reference for patrol-resource allocation.