Some helpful advice from the police came in – so thought it might be useful to post it here. It’s about the Personal Property Register that the Met and other police forces are encouraging people to use.

It’s at www.immobilise.com and you can use it to register your mobile phone, iPod etc. Two benefits: if the police recover stolen goods, this register makes it easier to trace the rightful owners, and – secondly – you can use the site to register the theft of devices, and this automatically adds it to the police’s records of stolen equipment. With the theft of these sorts of devices one of the big crime problems in many areas, it’s a service well worth using and promoting.