Watch out - housebreakers about again

Gustav wrote:Police don't police any more, as they are powerless and today's robbers , thieves, scumbags know it, there's no deterrent,
Prison if sent, 4 meals , sports, gym, libary ....no bills no work,equals no worries , accommodation found when released,
All on strength of taxpayers and they are decreaseing,

marcliff wrote:One of the reasons we moved from UK was because of the number of burglaries in the area. We had our garage broken into twice and our shed 3 times. This in a village of just over 6,000 people.
When we were here on a visit for a week, we got back and the house had been broken into. All digital electrical equipment taken, money, gone through loads of things and found my spare keys in a drawer and stole the car from my garage to take it all away. There was a very small window in the kitchen where they'd popped the lock off and, obviously, someone very small had climbed through .

We called both the police and the insurance company at the same time. The police said they already had another incident to deal with (one?) and would take some time to get there. The insurance company had arranged a locksmith and I had to keep phoning him to tell him the police hadn't arrived.

The police turned up at lunchtime the next day, almost a full day since we reported it. I'm told that I was even lucky they turned up in the first place. Locksmith then came and changed the locks and put a metal rod through the small window in the kitchen so it couldn't be popped off.

Never heard anything about any of the items stolen or my car and only got a "so you are victim" leaflet from the police.#

It was then my wife could no longer view the place as our home, simply a house. The thought of people going through things really upset her. They'd taken some drink from our cabinet and used glasses for them and my wife picked them up with tongs and threw them straight in the bin.

I looked through the crime rates for our village and was staggered to see the number of crimes that took place on a regular basis. There were 8 street robberies, 6 break ins, 4 cars stolen and 5 others and that was in just one month.

We had been contemplating moving here for some time but that, along with other things, really convinced us.

It is a real shame, that you can’t legally create a lethal trap for would be thieves, rapists and murderers. So when they tried to enter your property, they were fatally injured, and if so you were not prosecuted.
This would save the cost of policing, make burglaries attacks and rape a rare occurrence and mean you are safe in your home and your property was sufficiently protected when you are absent.

Gustav wrote:Same in uk,
Not enough police persons,

Jansl wrote:Hi all,
Don't mean to frazzle nerves, but the scumbags are back again. Just heard a house at the top of Rojales Hills ( area towards the waterpark), was broken into early last Saturday evening. The owners were out for just over an hour, in that time the intruders had somehow torn off a window grill & ransacked the place.
Realise we can't turn our homes into a fortress, but a time to be extra vigilant