Immobilise

jeledaka

Just in case some people have not heard of this its a good idea to do in case you ever got something stolen which I seriously hope no one does.

https://www.immobilise.com/

Safeguard Your Possessions With Immobilise
Immobilise is the home of the UK National Property Register and Recovery Service. It is trusted by over 17 million UK subscribers who have registered over 22 million items of property. It is also endorsed by all 43 UK Police forces who search it via The NMPR and by the UK Second Hand Trade who search it via CheckMEND.
Immobilise is checked over 500,000 times a month and identifies the ownership of thousands of items of stolen and lost property making it the system most likely to return your possessions.
In the event of loss or theft registration also assists in providing the information to complete accurate crime and insurance reports.
To register choose an item, complete the form and open an account, you can then add additional items, photos and certificates of keepership - all for FREE.


MORE ABOUT IMMOBILISE

Registering your property on The Immobilise National Property Register and Recovery Service gives you the ability to access the information you may need in the future to complete crime and insurance reports.This speeds up the insurance process and hugely increases the chances of recovery of your property.
The system is checked over 500,000 times a month making it the largest and most checked system of its type, which greatly increases your chances of recovery. The Police check Immobilise via their own internal integrated system called the NMPR rather than via the Immobilise web site making it quick and easy for them to access the information.
Uniqely members of Immobilise can place additional information directly on the NMPR from their account if they have an item stolen or lost. This can include details of the loss or theft, additional contact information and photos of the missing items.
They can also report theft to the UK National Second Hand Trade Stolen Property Register called CheckMEND which is searched over 20,000 times a day by the trade and the public.
Notification to this system makes it harder for a thief to dispose of stolen goods and increases the chances of them being identified. It also leads to a huge number of items being identified as stolen and being returned to their owner.



If this is not the right place to post this then I apologise and please move to appropriate place.

vixarooni

Thats fab, thanks for this.

When i have time i will get all my info on there.

Hope it never has to be used though!

greasythug

I was going to post this so here's a bump instead.

Good idea to register all those Xmas gadgets and other goodies!

Create a FREE private and secure portfolio of all your personal property.

If it is then lost or stolen, use Immobilise to tell law enforcement, your insurer, and the second-hand trade to assist in recovering your property and catch the thief.
Benefits of registration:

• Immobilise helps UK police forces to identify the owner of lost & stolen goods thousands of times every day
• Loss & theft updates you make are immediately available to the Police nation-wide
• Combat the sale of stolen property, alert the second-hand trade and the publicly checkable stolen goods database, CheckMEND, if an items goes missing
• Simplify insurance claims and police reports with certificates of ownership
• All these features are unique to Immobilise and provided FREE

Pip26

This is a really, really good post - thanks!

adam2484

i've used it for a while now. register everything then forget about it - piece of mind is brilliant

d.ylan

..to rehash an old thread, but...

does anyone know of any schemes to subsidise the cost of the security stickers for this service, they seem massively overpriced, it's a shameas the scheme is such a nifty idea?

I know you dont NEED the stickers to register your devices but I'd feel better having them on.

System

avapoet wrote: »

during the bank holiday weekend with the code BANKHOL1. Doesn't seem to work now, though.

Doh!.........

geordie_ben

Just a word of warning.

I registered on the above site, and within a week I had a call off the police saying someone had reported a phone stolen which matched my IMEI number, make and model of my phone

They were from Birmingham and I'm up North. I've had to take details of my contract to my local police station prove it's my phone.

Bit of a coincidence? I've reported the site to the police and my phone provider as I think something dodgy is going on

juliet_f

geordie_ben wrote: »

Just a word of warning.

I registered on the above site, and within a week I had a call off the police saying someone had reported a phone stolen which matched my IMEI number, make and model of my phone

They were from Birmingham and I'm up North. I've had to take details of my contract to my local police station prove it's my phone.

Bit of a coincidence? I've reported the site to the police and my phone provider as I think something dodgy is going on

Hi Geordie ben. Sorry to hear about your phone. I heard about this site a few weeks ago from a daytime episode of Crimewatch. The police on the programme were recommending the site! I've registered my phone etc on it and had no problems, but would be interested to hear what response you get from the police.

bruticus

Just to post my two cents....

I signed up for this after a work colleagues house was broken into a few years back. I listed nearly every fairly expensive piece of electronics I own.

A couple of years back we got burgled and nearly everything I posted on immobilise was stolen, yet some expensive stuff was left which was not on the site, such as my Xbox 360, which would have been in plain sight.

It may be me being paranoid, but it seemed like a strange coincidence.

Online you can report things as stolen, but nothing has ever been recovered