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No the PNC is accessible by all coppers in all jurisdictions. As is immobilise.com. However, the difference is that if a person hasn't already registered their frame number, when it gets nicked most people don't know their frame number and therefore cannot report it to the police, and therefore it will never get put on the PNC. Therefore if by some miracle the bike gets found in a robbers lair, and the local copper runs a PNC check, it will come back blank, and the owner will never recover their property. That is why immobilise is useful in my opinion. Because you've gone to the effort of recording the number before the horse has bolted! so to speak. It is a good habit to get into. Also for the rest of the items in your home.