One of the greatest fears of any household is awaking to a weapon wielding intruder in your house. While this is something we all worry about and try to our best to take some sort of preventative action against residential robberies, it seems burglars always have an upper hand on us.
While we don't really want to admit this burglars are experienced criminals and therefore are smarter than we give them credit. Based on the research of Professor Rudolph Zinn author of the book 'Home Invasion: Robbers disclose what you should know.' burglars become so adept at home invasions that they commit this crime for a several years before being arrested for the first time.
Dr Zinn's book is based on in-depth interviews with 30 perpetrators who were…show more content… According to Dr Zinn's study 77% of burglars choose targets where they had some sort of inside information. For example they would get information from a domestic worker, gardener or other service providers including security guards (or from the relatives or acquaintances of these people).
Perpetrators generally live 10 to 30 minutes (by car) away from targets but would travel much further if a target was deemed lucrative enough.
Most burglars choose targets that are closer to main road. As they believe this improves their chances of getting away especially in neighbourhoods where there are multiple entrance and exit routes to the nearest main round.
Preventative Tips: If you employee any type of domestic service provider at your residence ensure that you have a copy of their ID document and have their correct residential address. As this could potentially be valuable when police are conducting investigations after the…show more content… The most common way to break into a house is by forcing locks on doors open and by breaking windows.
While burglars stated they spent between 30mins to 5 hours inside a house, they did a pre=attack survellive to identify they number ogf peole in the house and the locations within the house. The purpose of this pre-attack survallience is to surpise the entire houshold at once and prevent them from taking any defensive action of raising a alarm or obtaining a weapon.
Preventative Tips: Ensure that your house has multiple security levels. This way if one is faulty or you forget to activate it you have another level of protection. For example be sure to have a house alarm system and electric fencing or palisade/spike fencing. Install burglar bars in your windows and a security gate behind all the doors in your house.
How To Minimise/Prevent Burglaries.
According to Dr Zinn, the best way to reduce the chance of a neighbourhood being targeted by burglars is by residents setting up community crime prevention initiatives. Research has shown that
