Beware of burglaries during the holidays
March 1st, 2011
During the holidays and until March 13, police and gendarmerie monitor your home temporarily left vacant during the school holidays. A safety feature to prevent burglaries.
Flags isolated outskirts of Toulouse are not the only homes hit hard by the phenomenon of burglaries. A true scourge without distinction, villas, apartments and corporate offices also located downtown.
While the school holidays have barely started, the police and gendarmerie encourage tenants and landlords to be vigilant before leaving their homes vacant a few days (see below). Every day in Toulouse, fifteen houses were visited by thugs in search of any luxury item easily “salable.” The year 2010 was marked by an increase of 6% of thefts from homes in Haute-Garonne .
In Toulouse, early this year, the trend is downward. Increased police surveillance and reinforcement of security systems have been greatly. According to official figures, in January 2010, 526 events were recorded in Toulouse, against 459 in January 2011. A decrease of 13% from one year to another.
“One third of these burglaries affects the elderly,” said a policeman. Thefts by deception, these flights making himself look like a genuine agent of water or a false police to abuse the credulity or weakness of vulnerable people, experienced a sharp increase late 2010, in Toulouse. Loner in search of money, teams organized through the homeless drug addicts, the profile of burglars, often repeat offenders, is multiple. “They are all found either jewelry or money or small hi-fi systems, portable …” said one policeman. Booty immediately resold from hand to hand or through resale sites on the Internet. “There is no better time than others. Thieves operate day and night, “said a policeman. The very center of Toulouse is not spared. Faced with this onslaught, police and gendarmerie retaliate and increase the arrests in flagrante delicto. For this holiday season, the prefecture renewed, as each summer, the operation quiet holiday. “During the last holiday, the 150 people who reported their absence to police have been spared the burglaries,” says one central police station.