Stolen ????

[Bob_z_l]

Nepia,

Didn't want to offend.

I think we were both typing our replies at the same time.

 

The reason I'd used TER was as much as anything 5 items free.

I hoped that if the Police used the register too it would increase my chances of recovery or even some form of justice.

 

Thanks Bob

[Andy Collins]

Te thing here is that the Police have to recover the goods for the registers to work. Now I don't want to slate our over stretched Thin Blue Line, but around here we have one copper for 30 square miles. Most of the time he has to do paperwork, less tome busting crims. When I was robbed, even though I was on the phone (999) while giving chase, giving details, descriptions, direction of travel etc, there was no response for 13.5 hours. This was the second crime inside an hour in the village. My stuff was never recovered, it was well away before the Police even had a statement. Had a squad car come along, and apprehended the thieves, the crime stats would have been down by two reports, over £10ks worth of gear recovered in one go. But hey ho, that's the way it is.

Now stolen gear doesn't often filter back into honest people's hands, it's knock off gear at knock off prices, or shipped abroad where it disappears, so tbh what use is any register? How many saws, with records of serial nos, ever get returned to the rightful owner, % wise? Very low I'd bet.

[nepia]

Nepia,

Didn't want to offend.

I think we were both typing our replies at the same time.

 

The reason I'd used TER was as much as anything 5 items free.

I hoped that if the Police used the register too it would increase my chances of recovery or even some form of justice.

 

Thanks Bob

 

No offence taken! And I go with your thinking; if you don't make some effort you stand no chance if you do lose stuff.

 

Jon

[nepia]

Te thing here is that the Police have to recover the goods for the registers to work. Now I don't want to slate our over stretched Thin Blue Line, but around here we have one copper for 30 square miles. Most of the time he has to do paperwork, less tome busting crims. When I was robbed, even though I was on the phone (999) while giving chase, giving details, descriptions, direction of travel etc, there was no response for 13.5 hours. This was the second crime inside an hour in the village. My stuff was never recovered, it was well away before the Police even had a statement. Had a squad car come along, and apprehended the thieves, the crime stats would have been down by two reports, over £10ks worth of gear recovered in one go. But hey ho, that's the way it is.

Now stolen gear doesn't often filter back into honest people's hands, it's knock off gear at knock off prices, or shipped abroad where it disappears, so tbh what use is any register? How many saws, with records of serial nos, ever get returned to the rightful owner, % wise? Very low I'd bet.

 

 

It's not a good state of affairs is it.

 

Re your first line though the OP was alluding to people other than the Police using registers to do their own checks. Given the obviously limited capabilities and success of the Police it seems a reasonable proposition.

[Andy Collins]

Ok, fair point Nepia, how well do these registers really work? I'm not really convinced, if a motor vehicle can be stolen and disappear without a trace, what real chance with something as small as say chainsaws? There are far more preventative measures in place on a car, yet they still vanish. Of course, anything is better than nothing, even if it just helps you to sleep better at night just knowing you've done all possible to make things harder for the obnoxious members of our society.

[nepia]

I go with that thinking completely. Just how well do the registers work?! Our best chance lies in that word 'preventatively'; stopping theft happening in the first place makes the rest of this discussion redundant.

I have a dream...

[Bob_z_l]

Andy, Jon,

I agree with your points entirely. My angle was that if the original poster purchased items from Auctions ( even eBay) and through the register found they were stolen he would be able to recover his money.

Point taken in that prevention is far and away the best method.

 

I also admit to living in the dreamy world that believes the police will eventually catch the bad guys, and more importantly justice will be done in this life or the next.

 

I saw the thread and saw the opportunity to try and add some positive info, to help. That's all.

 

All the best. Bob

[DN22 Gardening]

Thanks for the replys guys,

 

Guess the upshot is that there's no reliable way of checking stuff.

 

Ok, trailers, chippers, stumpies etc will be registered with the dealer when new, how many of us out there have sold kit on, and actually been bothered to inform the supplier that we've passed it on ???

 

All our big kit is registered with the appropriate dealer ( just took our new/used plant trailer to our local Ifor dealer to get it in our name), but even so, i'd be very surprised if, in the event of theft, we'd ever get it back