The police see a “direct link” with the corona measures in the slightly increasing figures. Many people worked from home. “The number of residential burglaries was exceptionally low in 2021. When the measures disappeared at the beginning of 2022, the number of burglaries also increased again. We are now slightly lower than in pre-corona year 2019 around the same time. But it is still expected to be more than 25,000 residential burglaries. this year,” said Sybren van der Velden, national project leader for home burglary at the police.
Number of home burglaries in the province of Utrecht no longer decreases, police see ‘direct link’ with corona measures
