MEND YOUR CONFIDENCE 18/01/2005

As mobile technology continues to gain momentum, opportunistic and organised thieves have no doubts about where to find their bread and butter. With thousands of laptops regularly stolen across the UK, it was high time that help was at hand. Enter the Mobile Equipment National Database (MEND).

Fully backed by the police and the mobile technology industry, MEND provides an ownership registration scheme for all mobile equipment in the UK. By registering your laptop’s details into the database, should you ever be the unlucky victim of crime and lose your system, the police can quickly return your laptop to its rightful owner when it hopefully resurfaces. Not only that, but the database can subsequently offer police concrete evidence when the time comes to prove the thief was in possession of your stolen goods.

Allowing registration of any piece of mobile technology, all users need to do to join the MEND scheme is make their way to www.menduk.org. You can then use online forms to add your mobile details to the database and give yourself a bit of extra security and peace of mind. Obviously the most effective way to avoid theft of your laptop is to use plenty of common sense when out and about, but when lightning strikes, at least there’s now more chance of recovering your system from any predatory thieves that may come your way.

Contact:
www.menduk.org