Coming home to find that there has been a burglary is never fun, but there are a number of tricks to avoid this.
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Simple tips to keep out burglars
One of these tricks is shared by a locksmith in Birmingham on the social media Tiktok. The locksmith, who goes by the name Brummie Lock Picker on Tiktok, shows in a video a simple trick that anyone with a key can use.
In the video, he shows how it becomes more difficult for a burglar to get in through a door where the key is in from the inside, something that Danish News24 was the first to report on. The key should also be slightly twisted, as shown in the video.
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According to the locksmith, this should make it much more difficult to pry open the door from the outside and therefore believes that you should leave the key in during the night if you do not want uninvited guests.
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How to protect valuable items in the home Swedish police have previously issued information on how to avoid burglaries, regardless of whether it is during nights or days when you are away.
The police urge, among other things, to leave valuable items in unpredictable places so that it takes longer for the thief to find stolen goods.
– Feel free to keep some “cheap” jewelry, bijouterie, in jewelry boxes in an easily accessible box and jewelry with a higher value, financial or affective value, more hidden. It is possible that the perpetrators stopped looking after finding the first boxes, crime analysts said Eva Johansson in a press release.
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