Vans broken into

[eggsarascal]

An electrician I know got his van broken into on Thursday night/Friday morning, cleaned him out. The police have been to see him this morning they told him 30 vans were done on the same night in the area. That's either a busy team or there was more than one gang out that night.

[drinksloe]

Was it a new tranny?

Was a load of them getting done locally a few years ago but only targeting tranny's.

 

[eggsarascal]

10 minutes ago, drinksloe said:

Was it a new tranny?

Was a load of them getting done locally a few years ago but only targeting tranny's.

 

It's a Vivaro, they drilled near the lock on the back door, I'm told they can then get a piece of wire in to open the door. New one on me.

[agrimog]

nearly all the vans on the road use a steel wire or rod between the internal handle and the locking mechanismn to work it, its just a case of knowing roughly where that wire or rod runs, cutting a hole, reaching in and pulling it....voila, door open, whether its a slider or a back door

 

[Rough Hewn]

Any vehicle can be gotten into quickly, just look on YouTube.
Especially with battery cutters etc.
Take all tools in the house at night, drag em back out every day.
Massive ball ache, but it's the only way I know.
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[Gary Prentice]

2 hours ago, Rough Hewn said:

Take all tools in the house at night, drag em back out every day.

And pray that the wagon is still there to put the tools back into 

[Gary Prentice]

21 hours ago, eggsarascal said:

An electrician I know got his van broken into on Thursday night/Friday morning, cleaned him out. The police have been to see him this morning they told him 30 vans were done on the same night in the area. That's either a busy team or there was more than one gang out that night.

My bro-in-law got stopped in the early hours the other week, picking his lad up from somewhere. 

 

They were just checking why a commercial was out and about at that time. Police were fine with him and he had no problem being stopped. Just the way good policing should be, or used to be.

 

Maybe if snowflakes stopped moaning about civil liberties we'd see more proactive policing. 

[The avantgardener]

38 minutes ago, Gary Prentice said:

 

Maybe if snowflakes stopped moaning about civil liberties we'd see more proactive policing. 

Maybe if we had more Police we may see some proactive Policing?

We have had decades of cuts to front line Police numbers combined with a different approach to fighting crime through intelligence gathering and CCTV.

The CCTV never seems to working on that day and a balaclava solves that issue anyway, intelligence is often wrong.

Lets get back to real Police on the streets doing the legwork.

If I got pulled in the small hours because I was driving a defender, it’s no big deal, just doing their job. As it isn’t filled with someone else’s stolen tools I have nothing to worry about.