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Advice to help you protect your home from burglary

by Lib Dem team on 12 January, 2015

This time of year following Christmas we see an increase in House Burglaries where the offenders may use any of the following methods:
  • Knock on on your door. If they don’t get an answer, they will go around the back of the house and force entry assured that there’s no one is in.
  • Using garden tools- spades etc left in your garden or that of a neighbour, they will force entry by prising doors and windows open.
  • They may simply pick up a rock and smash a window.
  • They may be using vehicles however most of the property being stolen is small and easily carried off eg. jewellery, cash, computer tablets etc so it’s possible the offenders are on foot or bicycles.
  • They will also look around and take keys and steal any vehicles that have been left outside the properties.
  • Opportunists will try door handles in the hope that you’ve left your door unlocked. Please lock your doors even if you leave the house for a short period. Don’t make life easy for thieves.
These incidents can happen in the day or evening. If you see anyone you’re not happy with, if someone knocks on your door with no apparent motive or is suspicious in any way, make a note of their description and call the Police on 101 IMMEDIATELY.
Please make sure that  you lock your garden tools away , don’t provide criminals with the means they need to break in to your house.
Leave lights on in the evening, use timer light switches and review your security. If you’d like a home security survey, give us a call.
   5 Comments

5 Responses

  1. anom says:

    The police should work closer with people whop have information I chased off 4 pakistani men in an Audi A4 63 plate all wearing balaclavas, black coats and black gloves at 1am ish in the morning. I watched them go round the Daylesford estate several times slowing down and looking at houses etc… They then became suspicious of me and drove off through Cheadle Village. I parked up opposite Instanbul Grill and stayed there for a minute or so…. they came back round … anyway they saw me again and went back up towards parswood, burnage … i was on the phone to the police the whole time asking them to get to me (milestones) to stop and search these guys…. why would they be wearing balaclavas for?

    The police did nothing….The last time this happened me and my mrs followed a car the police said they are not going to send out “blue lights” and then within the same hour two houses were badly broken into…

    Another time, again, me and the mrs caught 2 white youths park up outside our neighbours house. We witnessed them jump out of car into their garden. A minute later they got into the car. We were parked in such a way that we couldn’t see what they had taken. We followed them and told the police – they were not interested. Later on that evening our neighbours returned home to find that they had been burgled. Fortunately these burglars used their own car and the police tracked the number plate…

    The police, in our experience just don’t want to listen to suspicious activity. Once the officer answering our call said that because of police cuts reasons… quite shocked at that reason really…

  2. David Johnson says:

    We cannot blame individual Police Officers or The Police Service. We can see that here is one of the mechanisms used to reduce (reported!) crime – sack back office staff who compile statistics and assist officers with paperwork then argue that fewer officers are needed to catch criminals. Perhaps after the Election the Government will introduce US style gun laws to allow us to protect ourselves (against legally armed criminals)!!

  3. Carole says:

    It might help if street lights were working. I reported a street light on Daylesford Crescent outside No. 15 Case id 101736926 on the 28th December. It is still not working even though when I tracked it the comment says “completed” whatever that means. I also noticed a lamp out on Broadway between Kingsway & Cherington on opposite side.

  4. David Maycock says:

    I agree with David Johnson police cuts what do you expect and the Liberals are party to this what ever they say. Lucky if you ever see a policeman now, any where on any of our estates.

  5. Wendy Rowley says:

    I’d like to redress the balance of moans to compliments on this bulletin item:

    Firstly, thank you for the advice: we had left a shovel in our front garden for a workman, who left it behind by accident, to collect. Foolish! We have now moved it.

    Secondly, we had a very different experience of the police recently. Our neighbours appeared to be out: there were no cars on the drive, their lights were out and their alarm was sounding. We saw a shadowy figure pass across the bedroom so called the police who arrived very promptly. It turned out the gentleman who lived there had forgotten his alarm code, so it was a false alarm. We felt stupid but the police were very understanding…
    So thank you again.

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