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lewisa

What Grenage said is the truth.

Retail unit with steel doors on ground floor, all windows either barred, shuttered and boarded, tremor sensors on all ground floor perimeters, I thought I was safe.

Someone broke in 3 units away, came through 3 internal brick walls through other properties and finally into my 1st floor office.

Tripped the monitored class 1 and the rozzers arrived in ~2 minutes and they scarpered with nothing except causing £2K damage to the alarm system in a futile attempt to stop it ringing by smashing it up.

davemorton

Ant555 wrote: »

Thats a really interesting product and I was amused by this "Ensure the device is not placed where children can gain access" as thats most of the burglars in our area!

As far as I am concerned, if they are thieves, they deserve what they get. Not PC, but hey, sorry! (!!!!!!! liberals!)

Kiran

Rosie78 wrote: »

No they stole parts from a car on our drive. Professional job, super quiet, didnt even set the car alarm off!

It wasn't a ford fiesta by any chance was it?

tonyh66

Rosie78 wrote: »

No they stole parts from a car on our drive. Professional job, super quiet, didnt even set the car alarm off!

To be honest Rosie, they are probably not interested in breaking in to the house. They are probably scummy chavs who have the same car as you and wanted new alloys or other parts. Happened to us years ago, they took 1 wheel. Just secure the car the best you can, steering lock, locking wheel nuts etc. Park it under the security light and look at getting a cheap camera and CCTV stickers.

Norman_Castle

If they're after car parts would data tagging be an option.

Maxi2011

We were broken into about a year ago, they took the keys for both cars and my purse - fortunately we managed to get the cars back but not before it cost us a fortune to get them release from the police compound and have all our locks replaced and car keys reprogrammed. We invested in CCTV and I wouldn’t be without it now but other cheap options are -

Replace locks with anti snap ones

Door screamers or door jammers if you can’t afford a real alarm

Fence spikes (assuming that’s an entry option)

Fake TV simulators (makes it look like the TV is on in the living room)

Light timers to turn lights on/off

If you have keyless cars then store your keys in a metal tin or buy a faraday pouch to stop the possibility of using a relay or key cloning.

Rosie78

Thank you everyone for your advice. I know it doesn’t matter, it’s just a car but it has scared us. We now have security lights front and back.

The main worry is that a suspicious car - suspected of being involved - has been spotted in the road multiple times. I wish they would just leave us alone!