HYDERABAD: Who else can tell you better than a burglar on how to keep your valuables safe? If the burglar is seasoned Manthri Shankar with more than 100 house breaks to his credit, the security precautions will be all the more useful.
Most of the locks and concrete ventilators are not strong enough to prevent thieves. “In fact, locks on the main door lure the offenders because it confirms that the inmates are away,” said Shankar on Thursday. He was explaining security measures that can check burglaries. Better option
Shankar felt that instead of regular ones, people should use locks that can be fixed inside the doors. These locks make it difficult for the offenders to know if the doors are locked or not. Even automatic locks are affixed only at the centre of the door. Hence, locks connected to security alarms are a better option if people can afford them. Shankar opined that most of the locks and even ventilators made of concrete mix are just decorative pieces. He said the cement ventilators can be broken with one blow. Fixing grills made of steel for ventilators or mesh is a better choice.
He advised people to keep the lights, television or music player on whenever the inmates go out giving an impression that someone is inside the house. “Instead of keeping your cash and jewellery only in almirahs, keep at other places like kitchen,” he suggested. P. Appala Naidu, 25, is was charged with several burglaries. In the name of ‘Vaastu’, windows are being constructed close to doors. “This makes easier for us to insert hands through windows and unbolt the doors but people don’t understand,” Naidu remarked.
Worried of higher power bills because of the use of fans and air coolers all through the night in summer, people tend to keep the doors and windows open. The public forget that they lose lakhs of rupees worth property failing to spend a few hundreds more, he felt. He advised to keep lights on the premises of houses on during the nights because the offenders always want to make use of darkness. Shankar and Naidu were arrested on Thursday.
Taken from http://www.hindu.com/2008/03/14/stories/2008031459470400.htm
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