Registering your devices

Registering your devices

Here’s the latest on mobile phone theft in your area.

Protect your information and help us to locate your devices in the event they are lost or stolen.

Your mobile phone is important to you. It helps you to keep in touch with friends and family, and can be used in emergencies.

To protect your mobile phone and other property in the future visit www.immobilise.com and register your device for free.

Getting your IMEI number is easy! The IMEI number is printed on a label usually found behind the phone's batter. It is also stored electronically within the device. To display this onscreen simply key into the handset *#06#

When you register your phone or other property details are entered into the immobilise database. This information is then available to all UK police officers who regularly search the database when handsets are recovered.

We’ve put hundreds more officers on the frontlines of community crime-fighting teams, upping visible patrols in the right ‘hot spots’ so we can deter and catch criminals. These officers are working hard to bear down on mobile phone crime in London, arresting phone thieves on the street, shutting down vendors trading stolen devices and dismantling international criminal gangs.

We have now almost halved phone theft in Westminster, where it was most concentrated, following an intensive crackdown which has seen hundreds of arrests and thousands of phones recovered. After campaigning by the Met, Apple has also made a global change to its security system that better ensures stolen phones cannot be reused or resold – disrupting a highly organised international business model worth millions.

But we know there is more to do. That’s why we’re stepping up our use of technology, increasing our operations and working with phone companies to make it less appealing for criminals to commit these crimes in the first place.

You can report an incident of theft online at https://www.met.police.uk.