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Professional Burglars claim an intruder Alarm does not put them of.
A recent survey has found that intruder alarms do not present any
difficulty to professional burglars; the reason is because homeowners
often forget to set the intruder alarm or fails to lock their doors and
windows properly. Despite the many improvements in home security
systems if homeowners fail to use them properly there is little benefit
achieved.
Almost half of the persistent burglars interviewed for a recent survey
said they believed home security has improved over the last 10 years
but they also felt that the improvements would not be enough to stop
them breaking in. Only 20% of those surveyed said that a good security
system was the most common reason they abandoned an attempted break-in,
40% said being disturbed by the homeowner was the main cause of them
giving up a break-in attempt and 40% of those surveyed said they would
be put off if there was a noisy dog on the premises.
67% of those surveyed said they always followed the same pattern of
searching a house once they are broken in, normally starting in the
main bedroom, because this is the usual place that valuables are
hidden, they then cover the remaining bedrooms and the main living
room, this has proved to be the most efficient way of finding valuable
possessions. One interesting fact that emerged from research conducted
with burglars currently serving jail sentences was that they consider
children's rooms to be the least profitable to search.
The average time that a housebreaking takes is as little as 20 minutes,
the average age in which the first burglary was committed was 13, and
two thirds of burglars prefer to work alone. Almost all professional
burglars go out with the intention of committing an offence, that is to
say it is planned rather than opportunistic though obviously if a ripe
target presents itself they will take that opportunity to steal.
The main motivation to commit housebreaking is as one would expect
money, over 80% of those surveyed cited this as their major motivation,
they would search for a suitable target judging the potential value of
that home by the type of car on the drive, any obviously valuable items
that can be seen through the windows, the amount of cover that was
provided by such things as fences or trees, the presence of an intruder
alarm or dog, and signs of owner occupation.
It should be noted that most of those surveyed said that even though
they were not put off by an intruder alarm they would normally move on
to an easier target if one was available, also one has to take into
consideration the bravado of the people being surveyed, do remember
they were all convicted burglars serving time in prison at the time of
the survey...
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