WHEN are people going to understand that it is their responsibility to ensure their houses and cars are locked and their personal items secure?
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Petty criminals with nothing better to do walk the streets at night trying windows and doors to see if they can get inside someone's car or house and make a quick buck.
As Canobolas Local Area Command acting Inspector Brenden Turner said, some of these criminals considered testing car doors and back doors a job.
Even if these petty criminals try the doors of 50 cars, they only need to collect a couple of wallets, some GPS devices and the odd mobile phone to make it a successful night.
In fact, when it comes to stealing items from cars there is very little effort required.
All offenders have to do is walk along the street and pull up a door handle.
If it is locked they will move on. If not, they will take what they can and run.
Therefore, it stands to reason, that if people do not leave their car doors open and their valuable goods inside, the odds of criminals actually making a living out of these activities would dramatically decrease.
In 2008 Orange had the highest number of thefts from motor vehicles in NSW, with 646 incidents reported throughout the year.
Thankfully we no longer hold this dubious honour.
However, while acting Inspector Turner said Orange was experiencing a "happy lull" in the number of break and enters in cars and houses, there was no need for people to become complacent.
Let us all make a concerted effort to take responsibility for the safety of our own property and ensure the number of preventable crimes continue to drop.
The police are busy enough as it is, let's do our best to prevent crime, not encourage it.
