Mobile Equipment National Database

[Suzanne]

The Police National Mobile Phone Crime Unit wish to draw
your attention to a product called MEND (Mobile Equipment
National Database).  This is a FREE web based online
facility that allows owners of Mobile Phones and high value
mobile IT equipment, such as iPODS, MP3 players and hand
held computers, to register their contact details and the
intrinsic identifiers of the item, such as make model
serial or mobile phone IMEI number.

The database will assist POLICE to identify owners and
return their property.

This is the first, and currently only, national database
that allows instant online identification of the MEND
registered owner of a mobile phone or other IT equipment.

At present, without conducting extensive enquiries, details
of this type of stolen property is only available to
officers within a given police force boundary and details
of property found in the street is only available to
officers within a given Borough.

The Police National Mobile Phone Crime Unit, endorse this
product, which is a free service to the public.  

To register go on line at www.menduk.org. and follow the
simple instructions.

There are currently 8.5 million items registered on the
database, and this number is growing each day.

The system conforms to the Data Protection Act; details
will never be sold onto a third party, and it is safe.
Housed on physically secure servers at BT Ignite in Cardiff
via 120-megabyte encryption to the server, equivalent to
that used for on line banking.

Currently 50 per cent of all street crime involves the
theft of a mobile phone, on 30 per cent of occasions the
mobile phone is the only property stolen. A mobile phone
figures in 10 per cent of all crime. 10,000 mobile phones
are stolen every month in London. A quarter of these are
during street crime.

This crime prevention initiative will help recover your
mobile phones or IT equipment, which will prevent loss of
your important data and assist Police in the arrest and
detection of offenders.

Sent on behalf of Police National Mobile Phone Crime Unit
By Westminster Crime and Disorder Reduction Team  
MEND