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Crime Prevention - vehicle crime

On this month’s Crimecall Sergeant Graham Kavanagh was in studio to discuss vehicle crime. He offered advice to the public on how to best prevent such thefts. The advice included taxi related thefts, thefts from trade vehicles and the thefts of catalytic converters stolen from vehicles for the metals contained therein.

Statistics:

  • Over 1/5th of all thefts occur at a residential location, with 1 in 3 cars being left unlocked at the time
  • The most common items stolen were cash, laptops, sunglasses, jewellery, tools and sports equipment
  • Most common locations for these thefts was in a driveway
  • 50% occur between the hours of 12am and 7am and are happening throughout the country
  • Each year on average €340,000 worth of property stolen from cars