Neighbourhood policing officers are working with Dunston Hall Garden Centre to offer advice and free safety equipment following a number of shed break-ins.
Officers from the Dunston, Moor and St Helen’s Safer Neighbourhood Policing Team will be at the garden centre from 1pm on Monday, March 19 giving away free shed alarms and tamper proof screws to visitors.
They will also be offering advice on how to make your property less attractive to thieves by installing security lighting, locking garden gates and using gravel as a deterrent.
Police Community Support Officer Hannah Blockwell said: “At this time of year we generally see an increase in the number of shed burglaries, with thieves often targeting new gardening equipment.
“Many visitors to the garden centre will be keen gardeners and may have expensive tools so our advice will be especially relevant to them.”
Garden centre owner Nigel Simm said he was pleased to be working with police on the initiative and would encourage customers to consider increased security measures.
He added: “We feel that it is important to make customers aware of the need to protect their outbuildings and sheds against theft. To some gardeners, their tools, some of which may have been acquired over many years, are more precious than some household possessions.
“We are inviting Derbyshire Constabulary to demonstrate the various security options available to customers, with a view to stocking the recommended locks they will need to make sheds and outbuildings secure.”
For more information or crime prevention advice contact your local Safer Neighbourhood policing team by calling 101 or visit the website www.derbyshire.police.uk
(Reproduced from Derbyshire Times, 13th March 2012)
Gardien Comment: See the article on Shed Security at http://www.garden-security.co.uk/shed-security-print.htm
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