The risk of burglary is 73 times greater in the holiday season: How to secure your home

Denmark has a dull record when it comes to the number of break-ins, and figures from the national Police shows that in the coming christmas days is 73 times greater risk than normal. Therefore, there is also extra focus on it from the police.

In most police districts have been extra patrols, citizens ' meetings about the security of the home and campaigns on the social media.

- It is the extremely important for us that the citizens themselves make an effort to ensure the home. In addition, it helps our work extremely, when there is aware citizens who are calling in, if they see something suspicious. Better to call once too much than once too little, " says Anders primeval forest, vicepolitiinspektør from the North jutland Police.

Just in north Jutland, saw the in november a rather marked increase of burglaries, and therefore there was also cause for concern, as christmas was for the door.

photograph by of the burglar. Photo: Kürstein Benjamin

- We had some local criminal, who was extremely active in november, and in addition, we had a clear sense, we also had the visit of some foreign persons, who only come up here to commit burglary, explains Anders primeval forest.

In the north there come track burglars, and the month of december looks so far pretty promising, says Anders primeval forest.

- in General, here in december are we so far lower in the number of burglaries than last december. When it is said and done, we can no laws for the holidays, other than we hope that people from northern jutland do not get unexpected visits. A burglary is one too much.

the Same control they have on the contrary on the island of Fyn, where they almost cannot keep up with the number of burglaries, and in a press release calling on the public to keep an eye on everything suspicious.

- The last two weeks it has to be particularly bad with, respectively, 91 and 106 burglaries per week. It is far beyond what we usually experience at the end of november and beginning of december. Therefore, we are appealing precisely to the citizens ' watchful eyes, because they know their own neighborhood, and, therefore, can see and hear, if something suddenly is different, says vicepolitiinspektør Jesper Pedersen from Funen Police.

if you Ask around in the other police districts are there relatively track of burglars up here for christmas, but no one can make predictions about how the holidays are. Therefore Extra the Magazine gathered five tips on how you can best protect your home against intruders.

Five tips

Turn on the lights, parks a car in the driveway, let the dishes stand and the tv or radio run.

compared to our neighbouring country Sweden, Denmark has three times as many burglaries per capita. Sweden has reverse far more alarms per capita than in Denmark.

You can, with an invisible liquid brand more of her belongings, so they can more easily find the home, if they are taken. To do such, it can be a very good idea to advertise it in the form of stickers in the window.

you Must be out of town for christmas, so make an appointment with your neighbours to keep an extra very with your home. Possible get them to go a round in the house or in the garden.

Better to ring once too much than once too little, sounds the call from the police.