Lock up your autos Police are warning
Discussion
Lock up your autos Police are warning
OWNERS of high performance and prestige cars have been told to be wary of thieves.
Intelligence received by the police suggests that a professional gang is targeting Luton, Dunstable and villages in mid Bedfordshire.
The crooks – who are known to other forces in the south east – are thought to be on the lookout for new top-of-the-range Jaguars, Mercedes, BMWs and Range Rovers.
A higher than average number of high performance vehicles were stolen in the county last month and police sources say the are liaising with other forces to nip the problem in the bud.
One officer said: “The problem has been going on for a while now and there are number of cross-county operations under way in a bid to stop it.
“One large gang has already been nicked and there will be more on the way.
“Dunstable seems to be a particular hot spot. There are a number of high performance cars in the town and it has good getaway road links along the A5.”
Advising on how to prevent a theft a police spokesman said: “The best thing to do is to keep your car keys in a secure place upstairs so that criminals can’t break in and drive your car away.”
He added locking the car in a garage helps too.
copied from here www.seriousaboutnews.com/cgi/xtranews/viewnews.cgi?newsid1062284400,27140,
Well mine is in the garage with the alarm on with a big koff lock on the door and all belled up to house....
The garage is in a block the other side of my hedge.........
Not much more i can do is there??
OWNERS of high performance and prestige cars have been told to be wary of thieves.
Intelligence received by the police suggests that a professional gang is targeting Luton, Dunstable and villages in mid Bedfordshire.
The crooks – who are known to other forces in the south east – are thought to be on the lookout for new top-of-the-range Jaguars, Mercedes, BMWs and Range Rovers.
A higher than average number of high performance vehicles were stolen in the county last month and police sources say the are liaising with other forces to nip the problem in the bud.
One officer said: “The problem has been going on for a while now and there are number of cross-county operations under way in a bid to stop it.
“One large gang has already been nicked and there will be more on the way.
“Dunstable seems to be a particular hot spot. There are a number of high performance cars in the town and it has good getaway road links along the A5.”
Advising on how to prevent a theft a police spokesman said: “The best thing to do is to keep your car keys in a secure place upstairs so that criminals can’t break in and drive your car away.”
He added locking the car in a garage helps too.
copied from here www.seriousaboutnews.com/cgi/xtranews/viewnews.cgi?newsid1062284400,27140,
Well mine is in the garage with the alarm on with a big koff lock on the door and all belled up to house....
The garage is in a block the other side of my hedge.........
Not much more i can do is there??
This is now growing out of all proportion and is fast becoming an epidemic.
There are lots of gangs around doing this sort of thing......letterbox burglaries are fast becoming a thing of the past.
The new method is for 4 or 5 slag to break into your house, wake you up and get your keys........
I know that this sounds stupid and against the grain but, if it happens to anyone on here, dont put up a struggle...give them the keys and try to remember as much about descriptions as possible.
Too many people are getting their heads beaten for the sake of some car keys and as a result they dont get a good enough description.
There are lots of gangs around doing this sort of thing......letterbox burglaries are fast becoming a thing of the past.
The new method is for 4 or 5 slag to break into your house, wake you up and get your keys........
I know that this sounds stupid and against the grain but, if it happens to anyone on here, dont put up a struggle...give them the keys and try to remember as much about descriptions as possible.
Too many people are getting their heads beaten for the sake of some car keys and as a result they dont get a good enough description.
I agree with Tony, and theres no way im taking my keys upstairs - if someones prepared to break into your home for your keys, they wont think twice about clouting you round the head to get them! My keys live in the kitchen, well away from the doors, and out of sight from the window. If they get into the house though, i want them to take the keys and leave again ASAP!
I read the headlines of the Liverpool Echo the other week, aparently a house had the front door of their house taken out by a group of thugs using a sledgehammer. This was in the middle of the night, the scrotes then running upstairs and holding the wife (asleep in bed) hostage till the bloke through the keys over....
I mean - the bloody cheek of it!!!
The family had one 4x4 and either a people carrier or something like a jag - can't remember now.
Anyway i remain shocked that these tactics are in force....
edited to add that this unfortunately backs up TonyRec's experience.... Bu99er
>> Edited by Buffalo on Monday 1st September 12:09
I mean - the bloody cheek of it!!!
The family had one 4x4 and either a people carrier or something like a jag - can't remember now.
Anyway i remain shocked that these tactics are in force....
edited to add that this unfortunately backs up TonyRec's experience.... Bu99er
>> Edited by Buffalo on Monday 1st September 12:09
... You need a role model!!!" Mad Dave said:
I agree with Tony, and theres no way im taking my keys upstairs - if someones prepared to break into your home for your keys, they wont think twice about clouting you round the head to get them! My keys live in the kitchen, well away from the doors, and out of sight from the window. If they get into the house though, i want them to take the keys and leave again ASAP!
My keys live in a secret location inside the house. The house is burglar alarmed and connected to a monitoring service. If they offered the "Armed Response" option (a la the US) I'd have taken it. But by the time the scrotes got in a *VERY* loud siren would be going off - and within a few minutes the monitoring service would be calling the cops.
The alarm is on when we're sleeping too so we won't be surprised in our bed.
The cars are locked up in the garage with no way to get to them without keys....hopefully...
Paranoid? Me? Just a little...
I still reckon the best defence I've got is that enough of the neighbours have nice cars that'd be easier to steal why would they bother with mine that are harder...
ers, and they may not exit the premises of their own free will, or thru the way they came in alive. tonyrec said:
Sadly though....the Government are not and will not spend money on fighting this kind of crime.......anything to do with Autocrime is bottom of the pile.
They would rather tout the 'Speed kills' angle.....(Did i just say that!).
Do you think it might get a bit more time now given there was a police car (or maybe a policeman's car) that was stolen over the weekend which has caused a security scare 'cos it had some stuff relating to the Royals I think in it? Apparently those keys were fished out through the letter box too.
This from the radio news this morning, probably got all the details wrong.
tonyrec said:
If 4 or 5 slags wake me up in the middle of the night, they best have a bloody good excuse!
Excuse me Mr Deltaf......can we have your keys please?
Er NO!
Not that id expect them to behave in such a courteous manner! Had 4 of em trying to take the garage door off before now......didnt stop me persuing em down the street with a bat.
Or what about the guy up the street? They took his bike from outa the garage, past his dog!
and tried to start it up in the opening over the road, but they beat a hasty retreat when i flew outa the front door, they dropped the bike and the slag even dropped his helmet(for his head smutty!) and legged it to a waiting stolen punto.... Or perhaps the guy trying to break into the pub perhaps? I let all his tyres down....har har... Me bad.
Yeah we occasionally get "action" round here, but as they say in the scouts " BE PREPARED"...which i am.
- I like the escalation! tonyrec said:
The new method is for 4 or 5 slag to break into your house, wake you up and get your keys........
This is the result of the well-intentioned but misguided campaign by the government and police over the last 10 years to increase car security.
Increasing security does not reduce crime - it increases violent crime. To cut crime you have to catch criminals then lock them up.
Gassing Station | Speed, Plod & the Law | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff