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UNSECURED DOORS AND windows account for almost one in five burglaries, according to An Garda Síochána.
Gardaí released statistics on burglaries in Ireland ahead of the second EU wide Focus Day on domestic burglary tomorrow.
Domestic burglary is a criminal offence that all European countries are fighting to eliminate.
In Ireland, residential burglary in 2020 has fallen during Covid-19, with a sharp reduction seen in March and April in response to government restrictions on work, travel, school and business.
From March to August inclusive, there were 43% fewer residential burglaries reported compared to the same period in 2019.
Gardaí launched the annual winter phase of Operation Thor on 1 October to take burglaries and associated criminal activity.
When Operation Thor began, unsecured doors and windows accounted for 25% of all burglaries. However, this figure has dropped to just under 20%.
This means almost one in five burglars simply walk through an open door or climb through an open window.
The front door (34%), rear door (25%) and rear window (20%) are still the most common means of entry into a home by a burglar.
Jewellery and cash make up 75% of the total value items stolen from homes.
Home owners are being urged to avoid keeping large amounts of cash at home and ensure valuable jewellery is either secured in a properly rated safe or deposited in a safety deposit box.
Electronics and tools are the next most stolen item. Home owners are encouraged to mark, photograph and record serial numbers of their property.
There has been a significant rise in thefts of bicycles from homes, garages and sheds, according to gardaí.
An Garda Síochána encourage home owners to securely lock items within the shed/garage and use a robust lock on the shed/garage itself to slow down the burglar. People are being asked to consider adding the shed/garage to the house alarm.
Burglary can happen at any time day or night. However during winter months most burglaries occur between 4pm and 9pm, gardaí said. A common explanation for this is the shortening of daylight hours, which exposes vacant houses that are not sufficiently lit up.
Gardaí are reminding people of these steps that can help protect a home:
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I’d imagine burglars account for 5/5 burglaries
@David Keohane: secure doors and windows account for 4 out of 5.. what I take from this is leave your doors and windows unsecured 80% less chance of being robbed.
@David Keohane: I’d say difficult upbringings account for a fair chunk of the total.
@David Keohane: of course they do but why make it easier. This is not victim blaming of that’s what your suggesting. This lads would go door to door looking for unlocked houses and cars. If locked they move on waiting for the inevitable unlocked one. The stats may suggest that if people took advise and locked up and were more vigilant. Then the total numbers should lower.
@Seaniecp: Well it is victim blaming by definition although you just draw the dots and don’t join them and nobody suggested that until you mentioned it yourself.
@Sean: ah l could just sense where this article might go. It’s where the previous article on this went. It would be great if you could leave your door open and not be burgled but unfortunately that’s not the case. Be even better if people could take advice and not be offended by it (not saying the original poster was, his post may have been for humour)
5/5 burglaries are by skum most likely already on a suspended sentence.
Wonder what percentage are out on bail?
Wow slow news day?? 1 in 5 journal articles account for actual reporting, I say!
“Unsecured doors and windows saved 1 in 5 burglary victims from having doors or windows busted as well as having their gear nicked”.
Lockdown will reduce it a wee bit….
And what was wrong with all that?
They left the feckin window wide open.
For jaysus sake lads we are blue in the face from telling ye to close the feckin windows!!! You might as well have left the front door open!! Ye might as well have invited them in for tea.
Come crying then to us.
Spilt milk.
O spilt milk
@Peter O Donoghue:
Shure you can’t be doing dat.
No, lazy degenerates account of 100% of burglaries!!!!
A lock only keeps out an honest man
There must be a percentage where the doors and windows are secured but not very secure. Well that parts obvious since they were broken into. But you get top quality security doors and windows like Rationel or Fairco make with six point locking and laminated glass and remember to lock them and you’ve narrowed your odds significantly. Just don’t lose your keys or you’ll be sleeping in the garage.
If there is one thing In the world I hate is an unlocked foot locker
Is that all?
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