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[stephen509]

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[Bkk]

Awful news! hope things get sorted quickly and you feel safe again. Where abouts in underhill?

[PAULONDON]

i am sorry about it.. i had my house burgled 3 weeks ago near Upland Road.. please any evidence let us know.. it could lead to others ... thanks and i am sorry again !

[stephen509]

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[ianr]

> Totally smashed the back door in, I had 4 locks on this door & they still got in.

What parts of the defences was it that broke?

[LauraLou]

5 more flats on Underhill road broken into today, mine being one of them. I live on the second floor but they totally smashed my door in, thankfully they didn't make off with anything from my flat. Don't know about the others though...

[spark67]

How Horrible, only a couple of weeks ago one of Our neighbours averted another neighbours house being broken into by tackling two youths behaving suspiciously and calling police, police caught the look out, but let him off as he "hadn't committed an offense" even though their was a witness. doesn't sound like the same people though as theses guys didn't try and smash anything were & being tentative. this lot sound right aggressive :/

We Live on the same end of Underhill near Melford road.

[stephen509]

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[Penguin68]

Were these internal doors to the flats (i.e. was their actual destructive break-in taking place inside the house or from the street - or garden?)

[stephen509]

Both External to the garden & internal doors were smashed in.

[LauraLou]

They broke the bottom flats window, came through their flat and up the internal stairs to my flat and another. So an internal door, mine also has four locks on yet they smashed it off the hinges and split it with a crowbar. one of my neighbours was in as they were trying to break in so he called the police who arrived just in time before they could make off with anything of mine.

[EDOliver]

Decent wireless alarm that goes straight to the police for under ?200 on amazon...money very well spent

[Jeremy]

Alarms are a great deterrent. But realistically the coppers aren't going to arrive in the 5 mins it takes burglars to grab your laptop, jewellery, etc.

[EDOliver]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Alarms are a great deterrent. But realistically

> the coppers aren't going to arrive in the 5 mins

> it takes burglars to grab your laptop, jewellery,

> etc.

Yeah they will especially if a unit's close by.

[dimples]

we are not sure when on friday but we had a push bike and 2 scooters taken from the outside of our basement flat on belvoir road .

[Cocoviolet]

My flat was also burgled on Underhill Rd (Horniman end too). How can we get more Police presence, it seems like the situation is out of control.

[stephen509]

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[JohnL]

What about GPS 'tags' for stuff ? - just checked and they do exist !!

[Cocoviolet]

Stephen509 I was burgled in November last year. However several times since there have been people caught scoping out the building I live in and even people in the private grounds pretending to have gotten lost or looking for someone. It is very alarming the rate in which this is happening on one road alone.

[shaman]

As post in another thread where i work one of the blind peoples flats was broken into couple of months back same area although this guy was know to police and wanted for other burglaries. seems the area is high crime spot

[copleston_charlie]

This might be of interest to some - installed on your laptop and smartphone. Won't stop them being stolen, but may help with recovery/capturing whoever nicked it/bought it.

http://preyproject.com/

[LauraLou]

The police also recommended this site to me:

http://www.immobilise.com/

[James Godfrey]

I was broken into the other night, seems like someone is going round in the area. When the police came round to my house they said I was the 5th that week in a mile radius.

Hope they get caught before they cause any more grief and heartbreak.

[spanglysteve]

The only good thing about this thread is that it has finally pushed me into getting contents cover, something I had been meaning to do for ages but kept forgetting about!

[LauraLou]

Hi James, sorry to hear that I hope that you are ok. Can I ask where you are, are you also on/ near Underhill?