A security company established in Bloemfontein has reported an increase in breaking the house and opportunistic crimes in the free state during the festive season.
Defensor General Manager Gavin Benbrook said that many families came back from vacation to find their houses broken into, often because valuable assets remained unsecured.
“The trend this year we have seen a clear increase in opportunistic crimes of people in garages to steal garden equipment and things in the yards that are stolen, that is what we see now and also the normal cable theft where the boys are certainly afterwards Copper wire and so on. So they pull copper wire from the houses and pipes and cranes. “
Although the official crime statistics of the festive season have not yet been released, Free State Police has also observed an increase in the home break.
Spokesperson for the Motantsi Makhele spokesperson for the residents to make use of the empty house register that is available on all police stations, to inform the authorities when they are gone.
“The other that we have advised is that during the holidays we have a register at each police station called an empty house register – this is a register that people use to patrol those houses where owners reported that they are gone. So most people don’t know this, we have tried to raise awareness of them that at every police station – there is an empty house register and during the night when it is quiet, the patrolers will take the book, they will go to the house, they look around , “says Makhele.
He added that home protection does not have to be expensive, but each household must implement a form of preventive measures to reduce the risk of burglaries.
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