Law enforcement officials in West Lothian have a brand new software to help in investigating bike thefts and returning misplaced and stolen cycles to their rightful homeowners.
Since early December, all frontline Police Scotland officers have been in a position to add the Bike Register database app to their cell gadgets, offering them with a complete record of all bikes registered all through the nation.
The app permits any police officer the chance to run the VIN variety of any bike they find to determine who the actual proprietor is.
Police Scotland and Bike Register have labored collectively for a number of years and policing groups throughout the nation have undertaken bike marking and registration occasions throughout Scotland the place they encourage cyclists to register their bikes on the database.
Anybody who purchases or receives a brand new bike, both for recreation, health or commuting, is urged to make sure they add their particulars to the Bike Register database to assist guarantee police can return it within the occasion of it changing into misplaced or being stolen.
Sergeant Carly Bryce from Police Scotland’s Acquisitive Crime Workforce stated: “Our partnership with Bike Register has been actually profitable over time, permitting us to assist the general public mark and register their bikes, however up till just lately each time we got here throughout a doubtlessly misplaced or stolen cycle, we must contact Bike Register immediately and get them to examine if the bike was on the database.
“Because of the event of the app for police cell gadgets, we are able to instantaneously perform a examine ourselves and if the bike is registered and located to be within the possession of somebody who shouldn't be the proprietor, we are able to reply swiftly and appropriately.
“We all know that bikes are an costly commodity and the very last thing anybody needs to consider it their valued current, coaching gear or mode of transport being misplaced or stolen, however ought to such a problem come up, it’s actually essential that the bike is registered on the database.
“You are able to do so by visiting www.bikeregister.com.”
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