Noticeboard Archive

KEEP CHRISTMAS PRESENTS SAFE WITH IMMOBILISE
                                
Police are reminding people to register their Christmas purchases and presents with the online property database Immobilise, to help keep property safe and reunite stolen items with their rightful owners.
Many items of identifiable property are either lost or stolen each year. Immobilise is the worlds largest free register of possession ownership and searchable register of stolen goods and blocked mobile phones.
If you register your property at www.immobilise.com and the police recover it, you will get it back.
 
Almost any item with a serial number can be registered, including _
                                 Mobile phones
                                 Ipods, other MP3 players and games consoles
                                 Laptops, computers and PDAs
                                 Sat navs and in-car equipment
                                 Bicycles
 
Watches, jewellery, art and antiques can also be registered. Users who upgrade can also add photos and certificates of ownership to their account.
 
Community Safety Inspector Ben Cook says “Many items we recover from criminals are not given back to their owners, as without information on serial numbers or property marking we do not know who they belong to. Equally, if when we search a property we suspect an item of being stolen but the serial number does not indicate to us that the goods don’t belong to the person who possesses them, we cannot take that item away.”
 
Spending five minutes registering details of your Christmas gifts and other valued possessions on www.immobilise.com means their details are instantly available to us and all other forces across the country. If an item is stolen you can update your record to tell us, so if we or any other force find your MP3 player, sat nav or bike, we have proof it belongs to you.
 
With the credit crunch affecting many people this Christmas, registering your presents with Immobilise is an easy way to safeguard your property that doesn’t cost a penny.
If you want to include the details of Immobilise with your gifts, leaflets are available from police stations, mobile police stations or your local Crime Reduction Officer.
 
 
Many thanks,
 
Lindsay Baillie
Essex Watch Administrator, Uttlesford.
01376 556 232 / 07837 341 683
Lindsay.Baillie@essex.pnn.police.uk