10 Telford homes burgled each week
Thursday 23rd June 2011, 7:00PM BST.
He said: “Police regularly issue warnings to local people about the need to keep windows and doors shut – and ideally locked – when they leave their homes.
“But many burglaries still appear to have happened simply because people have left their homes insecure.”
Mr Brophy claimed burglaries remained rare in Telford and Wrekin, but added up to half of them are committed by thieves who enter the house through an unlocked door or an open window.
“This means the reality is that most burglaries are carried out by opportunistic thieves, rather than professional criminals, who are looking for the easiest way of getting into a house without being seen or disturbed,” he said. “If you leave the front door open it would only take a matter of seconds for an opportunist thief to walk in.”
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Well it is Telford, you must expect it in a dangerous area. Unlike Shrewsbury more quiet and sedate. It must be embarrassing to start your post code with “T” and not a “S”
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Well its must be nice to have shootings, stabbings, Assualt, sex crimes, thefts and murders in that quiet and sedate town where nothing happens or so some whould have you believe.
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I suppose with all that Banjo playing and looking seductivly at your sister there just isn’t the time to burgle houses in Shrewsbury..
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nothing worth pinching in some houses? lots of video recorders and crt tvs in shrewsbury, maybe people in shrewsbury dont realise they’ve been burgled!. before you moan I live in sy3 7 post code. which ever town ‘dangerous’ or not theft is a very bad thing and the penalty should be cut off their hands like in dubai!
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Now we need two simple figures;
How many are are caught and prosecuted?
What is the average sentence?
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