Police in London are turning to the Internet in an attempt to reunite owners of recovered stolen goods by posting pictures of the items on photo sharing website flickr.com.
As a result of numerous proactive operations aimed at persons handling stolen goods within the borough of Lewisham, officers have recovered a number of suspected stolen items of jewellery.
In order to restore the items back to their rightful owners the Burglary Squad in Lewisham borough have photographed all of the property and set up an album on the Metropolitan Police Flickr page in the hope that those owners will come forward to identify them.
Officers are using every method they can to try to return the missing property, already sending letters out to victims of crime who have reported their jewellery stolen through a robbery or burglary.
Flickr is another tool being utilised by Lewisham borough after police in Camden borough have so far had around 5000 people visit their album, with some people living as far away as Oxford, Liverpool and Lincoln viewing it.
It is hoped that the Flickr album, or ‘set’, entitled “Gold jewellery recovered by Lewisham Burglary Squad” will allow the public to search through pictures of the stolen items to try to identify anything that might belong to them.
The Flickr set went live yesterday, Thursday July 27, and contains over 50 images of stolen jewellery. Some of the jewellery is unique, with many items believed to be family heirlooms or items of sentimental value. Some of the items will be easily recognisable; for example one is a watch that on the back of it has Apollo 11 with an image of an eagle with 40th anniversary written at the bottom.
Officers are appealing to anyone, who has had property of this type stolen prior to 4 July 2011 to visit the site and see if they recognise their property.
