Fighting festive crime (From Community Newsgroup)

Fighting festive crime

12:00pm Monday 8th December 2008

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RESIDENTS across Trafford are urged to make their valuables less attractive to thieves this Christmas by registering them at a website.

The online database, found at immobilise.com, allows officers to search for lost or stolen items of identifiable property and is the world’s largest free register of possession ownership.

Almost any item with a serial number recovered by police can be returned to the owner if it is registered on the database. Users can also add photographs and certificates of ownership to their Immobilise account.

Examples of items that can be registered include mobile phones, MP3 players, games consoles, laptops, computers, satellite navigation systems and in-car equipment, bicycles, watches, jewellery and art and antiques Crime reduction advisor for Trafford, PC Tony Crompton, said: "Many items we recover from criminals are not given back to their owners as, without some proof of ownership, we do not know who they belong to.

“Spending five minutes registering details of your Christmas gifts and other valued possessions for free on immobilise.com means that 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, watch or bike, we have proof it belongs to you"

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