FRANKLIN, Mass. -- Expensive high-tech devices are not only popular among consumers, but they're also a favorite target of thieves. Now a police officer has created a Web site he hopes can help reunite people with their stolen devices.

NewsCenter 5's Jim Boyd reported that thousands of electronic devices -- laptops, iPods, global positioning devices -- are stolen every day.

Police said many recovered devices end up in police department property rooms with little chance of being reunited with their owners especially if they haven't recorded the serial numbers.

Tom Shea thinks he has come up with a solution. He's a Brookline police officer who launched the Web site JustStolen.net. On the Web site, citizens can securely register property so that if it is lost or stolen, police who come across it can easily identify it and return it to the owners.

"We can identify anything," Shea said.

Shea said Franklin, Boston, Cambridge, MBTA police and several other agencies in Massachusetts and around the country actively monitor the Web site.