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Stolen GPS Units
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This situation is more prevalent than you may think. We estimate that
2,604,900 GPS units will be stolen over the next 24 months in the US.
To compound the problem, even if the police were to find the thief and
recover your GPS unit, they have almost no idea who owns it or how to
get it back to you! Why? Because you never wrote down the serial
numbers and the paperwork accompanying it is long gone. You filed a
police report, but with no serial number to report, your GPS could be
stored away in some police evidence room with thousands of others just
like it across the state or across the country, never to be returned
to you again.

That=92s where JustStolen.net comes in. Our website was established by
Police Officers to assist consumers, college students and business
owners retrieve lost or stolen valuables. The website is a powerful
database that members can use to register their personal property. Any
descriptive information can be entered into the database including
make, model, color, serial number and any thing else you can think of.
You can even upload photographs of your items.
But along with the other great advantages of being a member, there are
two fantastic features about JustStolen.net:
=95        Once your items are registered, if they are ever stolen or lost you
have all the information you need to give to police. Your descriptive
information about the item has been stored in our secure database.
=95        But here is the best part: When your item is recovered by police
across the state or across the globe, they only have to log onto one
simple-to-use website to search for its owner. They just enter the
serial number or description of your GPS, laptop, iPod, DVD player or
other valuable, and the item=92s description and the email address that
you entered when you first registered is there for them to contact
you!
Your valuable item won=92t be sitting in some far away evidence room,
because the police now know who the owner is, and they have an easy
way to get in touch with you. It=92s as simple as that! Your property is
returned and there=92s no need to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars
to replace it.

And best of all, JustStolen.net is FREE to use; free for consumers,
college students and business owners, and free for all law enforcement
personnel. There is never any charge to use our service.
What are some of the other benefits of how JustStolen.net gets your
valuables back to you?
=95 There=92s no need to spend your hard earned money to replace lost or
stolen valuables
=95 There=92s no need to fill out time-consuming insurance claim forms
=95 No insurance claim means lower premiums
=95 Your irreplaceable items (data in your laptop, photographs in your
digital camera) have a better chance of being returned to you
=95 You, the victim of a crime, can now assist the police in a
successful prosecution of the thief
=95 Police won=92t waste precious time trying to find the owner of
recovered merchandise, freeing up time for crime fighting
=95 Your member information can be accessed by you from any internet-
accessible computer across the globe
=95 Police only have to search one powerful database for owner
information when they recover lost or stolen goods
=95 No contracts to sign
=95 No minimum commitment

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:03:01 -0700 (PDT), Crime reporting group


So...who funds the operation and provides the equipment for the
database?

Crime reporting group wrote:
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That I don't doubt. That's just yet another reason I like my 76CSx. I
park the car, the holder/cord/GPS get locked in the glove compartment.
No one can even see it.

That assumes I'm not taking it with me.

--
Steve

I leave the bracket, but the unit comes out even if I'm only running into
the store for a minute. You can steal one in seconds. Leaving one mounted is
foolish and tempting.

wrote:
Leaving the bracket frequently results in a break-in since the perp
figures there is a gps in there somewhere. Not removing the tell-tale
ring left on the windshield from the suctioncup mount results in the
same.

Bean Bag mounts!