Immobilise is a nationwide secure database system that allows you to protect your property by registering on-line any valuables that have a unique serial number such as mobile phones, laptops, ipods, bicycles, and cameras.

Registering is free, quick and the Immobilise site is surprisingly easy to use. Immobilise aims to help reduce mobile phone crime and robbery and reunite you with your property.

To find your unique mobile IMEI number just enter *#06# into the phone and the number will appear. Once a phone is registered, should the phone be lost or stolen, it can be reported online and the phone immobilised immediately by all service providers.

Cambridgeshire Constabulary can search this system for lost or stolen items. It enables police officers to search the database for the rightful owner of any recovered items and quickly re-unite them with their property.

The service is supported by amongst others the Home Office, the Mobile Industry Crime Action Forum , the Metropolitan Police , Transport For London , the National Mobile Phone Crime Unit , and almost all the major UK police forces.