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How does it work?

It is free
This site is only intended for victims of a theft or a housebreaking, or for people who want to consult the Inventory of Stolen Goods.
The subscription of your stolen goods is totally free.

Every stolen good record online is strictly anonymous when viewed. Signing up to our service is a real-time operation, which means that the data concerning your stolen goods is distributed the minute you have signed on and can be immediately consulted by the Police, the Customs, all antique professionnals, secondhand market and general public. As said before, everyone is able to consult the Inventory of Stole Goods but it is absolutely impossible to establish any connection between this list of objects and the person who put them online. The data sheet for each item put online is completely private.

Security

For clear reasons of confidentiality and security there is no link between the list of stolen objects you submit on STOP-ROB and your identity. It is impossible to know where the object you see on the site is coming from, every stolen good record online is strictly anonymous when viewed.

We do not have any access to the elements registered in your account, the only access we have is your identity, not the objects you register.

Only on your specific demand (or judicial approach) can we penetrate the data and make a manual research of your elements.

The concept

The concept : The world Inventory of Stolen Goods. : become personaly involved in the search of your stolen goods.

The interest of such a site is obvious. It is true that thefts of objects and work of arts throughout the world, but mainly in Europe, harm thousands of victims be there individuals or institutions.

These thefts bring a large number of buyers, collectors and professionnals, often of good faith, into the category of unintentional receivers and concealers, with all that may sometimes involve in the way of legal and psychological unpleasantness.

From now on general public dispose of a brand knew concept, a tool for the protection of valuables. It gives yourself the chance to find your valuables again. Register the items that have been stolen from you on STOP-ROB.com will help investigators and prevent thieves from easily reselling your goods.

What will bring STOP-ROB ?

For the first time online, it is posssible to actively take part in the search for your stolen goods, thanks to STOP-ROB.com , an international first.

STOP-ROB « the Inventory of Stolen Goods » is a database of stolen goods all over the world. It is free. Every stolen good recrd online is strictly anonymous when viewed.

STOP-ROB « the Inventory of Stolen Goods » gives you a chance to record and distribute information on the stolen goods in real time.

Thanks to STOP-ROB, you will be able to property identify your estate. Since no one is sheltered against theft, each person must apply a simple method for the IDENTIFICATION of his estate, in this regard insurance advisers systematically warn their clients about the requirements of their companies. It will help because: (see next titles)

Become actively involved in the search

STOP-ROB will distribute photos of your stolen goods both nationally and internationaly. This will hinder the thieves and you will become actively involved in the search for your stolen goods, thereby helping purchasers.

You are putting a maximun of trigger factors on your side, not only with regards to the search for your stolen goods, but also to your capacity to find them by producing additionnal proof that the stolen goods are your property.

The only available means for the general public of
ensuring the legal provenance of a secondhand good.

STOP–ROB “the Inventory of Stolen Goods”: a philosophy focusing on the cleaning-up of the secondhand market and on the prevention of petty larceny and grand larceny: The fact that you make the resale of stolen goods more difficult, by putting your stolen goods online in real time, will work towards discouraging first offences, which often lead to a more perverse spiral of larceny with greater consequences. Thieves of car radios and electronic equipment, who are generally small thieves, start with this kind of larceny, are taken by it and end up by committing serious misdemeanors. STOP ROB “The Inventory of Stolen Goods” will make their task harder in two ways:

1 – The immediate real-time placing of stolen objects online will enable the Police and Customs to check where the stolen goods come from on a national and international level and possibly prevent them from disappearing abroad.

2 – In addition the visibility of these stolen goods will help buyers to avoid giving their money to thieves on the one hand and to avoid being taken for a receiver of stolen goods on the other.

Evidence of your property

When it comes to thefts, SPEED is the decisve factor.

It is worth mentioning, that if your stolen goods are found, you must be capable of proving that these goods really are your property. If you can produce the corresponding invoices or any written evidence already filed on SAFE DEPOSIT “the Internet safe”, or if you have previously recorded your stolen goods on STOP ROB “the Inventory of Stolen Goods”, you are making both the investigators’ work and the recovery of your goods easier.

STOP-ROB “the Inventory of Stolen Goods” gives you the best opportunity and capacity to do something to hinder the resale of your goods, helping the investigators find your stolen goods.

Concealment

The prosecusion of concealment of stolen items and their retrieval are topics wich give rise to a variety of legal questions. 2 aspects are of particular interest:

- Problems related to the bearing of the international penal code on concealment, in situations where a theft has been committed in the U.K. andthe corresponding concealment has been discovered abroad, or vice versa.

- Problems regarding restitution and the principles of civil law in cases of action for the recovery of property, when the object found is claimed both by the victim of the theft and by the most recent possessor.

- In Fance concealment is punished by 5 years inprisonment and €375 000 penalty. Each country has its own laws. It is obvious that the penal or civil law of the country in question will apply.

The notion of « good faith »

Article written by Martin Monestier, withn its autorisation: Inernational Yearbook of stolen works of Art. This notion of « good faith » is sytematically put forward by most persons implicated in a concealment case . The concealment of stolen goods has often been considered an offence related to theft. In fact, the real curse is not the burglar but the concealer or receiver; for the concealment of stolen goods is not, as many imagine, a consequence of theft: it is rather the true incentive, the major cause. Let us note that, in criminal networks, it is the concealers who set the trends in the illicit market and order particular thefts

At one of the antiquarian biennal in Paris, an exhibitor was selling a « Boulle » writing desk which had been stolen from its legal owner twelve years previously. The investigation traced the desk back trough a mill of sources: an antique dealer in Nice and another legitimate in Florence, who himself had received the desk from a second-hand dealer in Turin.

In this case, as in dozens of others, the antique dealer, the last owner of the stolen piece, was recognized to be of « good faith ». The piece had been entered in his police register, with mention of the name and address of his seller, and the amount of the transaction had been paid by check.

The whole problem of fighting against the concealment and recycling of stolen goods lies in the multiplication of « links », which complicate the task of the Police to a remarkable degree. Under the law, ownership of furniture and objects is legitimate if the purchase is legal and in good faith.

But at the end of the chain buyers of stolen art-objects are unable to define the origin of their acquisition. They may therefore in no way be considered responsible, and the task of the accusing party -to prove bad faith – is usually an impossible mission. This largely explains the incredible fact that 30% of stolen art-objetcs and woks of art are recycled through legal channels of sale.

What you have to know before consulting the Inventory of Stolen Goods.

The non-reproduction of a work in STOP-ROB does not guarantee that the work is not subject of a police search. In the same way, it may happen that an object or work of art indexed as stolen in STOP-ROB has recently been traced and that the police departments initially responsible for its search have not as yet been informed.

Regarding the objects without serial number (object or work of art), the transmitted information depends of the quality and precision of these information, the exact description registered in our form ( calqued on the official Object ID form, ICOM Museum, Unesco). Each user of this service is the only responsible for the utilisation of the received information.