How do burglars get in?
Reduce the hassle and stress of losing your personal property and having to call Police and your Insurance company by taking some simple measures to ensure it doesn’t happen to you.
Common methods burglars use to break into homes:
- Open or insecure windows and doors
- Fishing for keys through a letterbox, window or even a cat flap
- Communal doors left insecure or wedged open
- Attacking and snapping europrofile cylinders
- Using force on inadequate doors or windows
- Slipping locks
Valuables targeted by burglars included:
- Cash, credit cards, jewellery, family gold
- Portable electronic devices, phones, laptops and tablets
- The vehicle parked outside
- Pedal cycles, motorbikes and mopeds
- Passports and documents (for identity theft and fraud)
- Tools
- Antiques
Remember if your valuables are out of sight and can’t be seen they are less likely to be taken.