Burglary on Beresford rd

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Permalink Reply by kiki_beresford_road on April 2, 2015 at 13:10

very sorry to hear this Lindylou, horrendous that people can be so brazen as to throw a brick through your window in broad daylight. I live at the top of beresford rd, didn't see anything i'm afraid. Just wanted to lend my support, we were burgled a few years ago and it's very unsettling,just kept consoling ourselves with the fact that no one was injured.

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Permalink Reply by Lindylou on April 2, 2015 at 13:16

thank you so much for your support, it means a lot to me.

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Permalink Reply by snoot on April 2, 2015 at 14:51

I too used to live down on beresford rd, #121. We had a few incidents where our door was nearly kicked in twice by the same guys, police picked them up twice within 2 months, both eastern european, one massive and average guy, they also kicked off a few door mirrors from cars further up the street, they were later picked up on Alison rd trying another door. If it sounds like the same guys and close to 121 then feel free to message me, I think I still have the crime ref number and the police could follow it up from the history files. We moved not long after that but not necessarily because of that, we liked living there for 2 years and that's the only incident we had so don't be too hasty, get one of these

http://www.screwfix.com/p/yale-hsa6400-wireless-4-room-alarm-kit/54473

easy to mount and fix as it's wireless, it's a great deterrent.

And a wireless ip camera that will plug into your router is great, we have one facing out the window and is motion triggered to take photos when someone approches the door.

http://www.dlink.com/uk/en/home-solutions/view/network-cameras/dcs-...

Has infrared too so records well at night. I know it maybe too late once they get in and steal stuff but at least you will have the time and photos of the person/s who broke in. 

And before I'm jumped on regarding how I know where they were from it was in police report, nationality etc

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Permalink Reply by pamish on April 2, 2015 at 19:15

Those systems look interesting - do they need a paid-for phone sub or something, if it's going to send out a phone message when triggered?

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Permalink Reply by snoot on April 3, 2015 at 10:08

Hi Pamish, the alarm just runs a cable to your phone line port, it rings once it has been triggered, it can ring mobiles or landlines and up to 3 numbers. Very easy to install if you have a half day.

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Permalink Reply by andy h on April 2, 2015 at 15:14

Hi lindylou, I'm very sorry your house got turned over. I know it tough, we've been burguled in the past but You must be phyosophical about these things,. It's never good, but what you lost is just stuff. You and yours weren't harmed... the worst bit is that your space was invaded. Don't leave or they have won. Try to remember your bigger and better than them.
you live in a huge metropolis and if this is the only time its happened in your time in London you will have got off lightly.
I grew up in the west end, we were turned over three times in the 20 years I lived there and more recently one time in harringay.
There is stuff you can do... Get to know your neighbours , if you have a large hedge in you front garden cut it down / back so that no one can hide behind it and do what they do unobserved and finally if your window frames permit - fit laminate glass it will stop the brick going straight through.

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Permalink Reply by 2wo1qeh6fxhr3 on April 3, 2015 at 8:57

really sorry to hear of this, there have always been a lot of burglaries on the ladder at least as long as i have been living here (on warham, but not as a consequence of me living here, i might add ;-) but while of course we shouldn't have to think this way, i have noticed it tends to be the houses that look like there is plenty worth stealing, like big flat tv screens or big expensive looking pc monitors or laptops visible through the bay windows or also the places with lots of people coming and going, the ones let room by room... these scum bags do watch the houses and see when people are leaving for work etc... yes there are a lot of dodgy scumbags around here, i see them all the time walking and cycling up and down the roads, looking in peoples gardens and windows for anything to steal. if you decide to stay, try to keep the house a bit discrete with blinds on the front windows or frosted glass if you don't like blinds, the frosted glass film also helps stop the glass smashing all over the place! and always double lock the front door with mortice lock, and get a 'london bar' fitted to door frame to add a bit more strength, if they really want to get in they will, but make it harder for them, some people just leave their house on the latch lock and a good kick will have that open!!! x

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Permalink Reply by Craig paterson on May 22, 2015 at 18:45

We moved to warham in January this year and we love the street and area, but there does seem to be a few dodgy characters around. Our neighbour told us last week somebody was in the back gardens trying to break in to anywhere left unsecured. They broke our fence climbing over it and pulled down his outdoor light jumping over his fence. Not cool.

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Permalink Reply by Finsbury Park Ranger on May 23, 2015 at 11:00

I feel for you,

The police know who the prolific offenders are, it's no secret, when I caught a pickpocket red handed on a bus the Holborn police said he's regular, caught many many times before. They knew his face well.

There are even hostels full of prolific offenders. We know where many of them live.

We just need to stop paying the police to do a job most of which is a royal waste of cat and mouse time and simply clamp a tag on their leg. Once you've abused the human rights of others more than ten times, do you deserve to keep all the normal human rights given to peaceful citizens ?

If they don't have the opportunity to commit a crime and get away with it, mostly they won't do it and if we know exactly where they are at all times, there is no opportunity to get away with it.

Let's use technology to deal with those that bring misery upon many people again and again and again.

Tolerating the utterly intolerant isn't liberal, it's masochism.

I would also counter balance this with anyone who' s criminal behaviour brings mystery to many multiple people should be considered 'prolific' and I would include the behaviour of powerful establishment figures that are found to rig markets etc and they should also be given the same justice.

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