Police raids and battering rams

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On all these cop programmes they have those red battering rams things and every time they have problems smashing the doors (usually UPVC) down. Often taking 30 seconds or more to get the door open and usually only managing to partly open it. Given the occupants time to flush stuff down the loo. (which begs the question why don't they open the drain up ready for this event)

My question is why don't they use locksmiths (there are lots of lockpicking website forums often frequented by locksmiths) who can open most locks within a few minutes silently or do the TV favourite of getting a delivery driver or "gas man" to get them to open the door first?
Or just wait for an occupant to come out, grab him and get the keys?

Seems a bit messy they way it's done now.

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GC8 said:

After concerns about beads, and bump keys, I upgraded my outer door with a pair of 500+ kilo holding force elctro-magnetic locks.

Its now as hard to get into as the vault in Nakatomi Plaza...

Bump keys are over hyped. You have to be quite skilled and it's not silent.
I'm just waiting for the daily mail to run a story on this.
If you're worried about them you can simply put anti bump oil in the lock, as the bumping is the pins bouncing and the oil stops this.

Besides. You door maybe secure but I bet there's a window that's insecure by comparison.