Comparison
Theftsight vs National Mobile Property Register (NMPR)
A police-only intelligence platform that unifies property-crime data across UK forces vs a consumer-facing marketplace-monitoring and recovery service.
National Mobile Property Register (NMPR) The NMPR is the UK's national police property database, pulling mobile-phone and personal-property crime data from every force into one searchable platform. Tens of thousands of officers query it thousands of times a day by IMEI, serial or phone number. It's the backbone that makes registers like Immobilise useful to frontline policing — but it's a lookup tool for officers, not a watch on the marketplaces, and the public can't use it directly.
| Capability | National Mobile Property Register (NMPR) | Theftsight |
|---|---|---|
| Core model | Cross-force police intelligence & property-attribution platform | Continuous marketplace watch + confidence-scored match alerts |
| Marketplace scanning | None — a lookup/intelligence tool, not a marketplace crawler | Automated serial, image, price & location matching across marketplaces |
| Police | Used nationally by all UK forces; tens of thousands of officers | We feed officers a ready-made proof pack per candidate |
| Privacy | Restricted to accredited law enforcement/investigators | Private by default; shareable when stolen |
Where National Mobile Property Register (NMPR) is strong
- The unifying national police property database across all UK forces.
- Real-time cross-sector data (police, insurers, networks, trade).
- Deeply embedded in frontline and control-room police workflow.
Where Theftsight is built to win
- Consumer-facing — owners register and drive their own recovery.
- Active marketplace scanning, not just an officer's lookup.
- A proof pack and insurer success-fee path that turn a match into a recovery.
Can you use both?
Yes — the public contributes to the NMPR via Immobilise, and Theftsight adds the marketplace-monitoring layer neither the register nor the police lookup provides.
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