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Strengthening your home against sneak‑in burglary in the UK is all about closing the tiny gaps burglars exploit. Police forces consistently report that these crimes happen when doors or windows are left unlocked for just a moment, often while someone is home. The good news: the most effective defences are simple habits and low‑cost upgrades.
What Sneak‑In Burglars Look For Essential Security Actions 1. Lock Doors All the Time 2. Secure Windows 3. Use the WIDE(N) Method Neighbourhood Watch recommends the WIDE(N) combination, which can make a home up to 50 times more protected.
4. Visible Deterrents 5. Remove Temptation 6. Manage Daily Habits 7. Strengthen the Perimeter 8. Use Problem‑Solving Thinking The College of Policing recommends using structured methods like SARA (Scan, Analyse, Respond, Assess) to identify your home’s weak points. This means: Quick Comparison Table
https://www.ourwatch.org.uk/burglary-WIDEN
Report Fraud launches This week, the City of London Police, the national lead force for fraud, announced the full public launch of Report Fraud, which has now officially replaced Action Fraud.
Cyber crime and fraud are now the most common crime in the UK, accounting for around 50 per cent of all offences and costing the economy billions of pounds each year. Cyber-enabled crime and fraud continues to grow in both scale and sophistication, targeting individuals, small businesses and major organisations alike. Report Fraud has been created to meet this challenge head-on, providing a single, modern national gateway for reporting and intelligence that will strengthen the collective response of policing, government and the private sector. Report Fraud is the most significant evolution of our national capability. It provides, for the first time, a single, modern national reporting, triage and intelligence platform for both cyber crime and fraud, enabling the City of London Police to lead policing’s 4Ps response – pursue, protect, prevent and prepare - at a national level. Through the new service, intelligence will be assessed and disseminated across forces, serious and complex cases will be identified for specialist investigation, and victims will be directed into a consistent national standard of care and support.
Theft From Insecure Vehicles– Don’t Make It Easy for Thieves Across the UK, police forces are reporting a steady increase in theft from insecure vehicles. These crimes are overwhelmingly opportunistic: offenders walk down streets trying door handles until they find one that’s been left unlocked. It takes seconds for them to grab valuables and disappear without a trace. What Thieves Look For Simple Steps That Make a Big Difference Why It Matters Theft from vehicles doesn’t just cause inconvenience — it can disrupt work, increase insurance costs, and leave victims feeling targeted. Most incidents are preventable with small changes to daily habits. Help Keep Our Community Safe  A few seconds of prevention can save hours of stress. Please take a moment to check your vehicle before you walk away. Encourage neighbours, colleagues and family members to do the same. Together, we can reduce opportunistic crime and keep our area safer. https://www.ourwatch.org.uk/protectyourcar
Neighbourhood Watch has developed a clear, practical approach to Active Bystander Training, aimed at helping ordinary people step in safely when they witness harmful, inappropriate, or escalating behaviour. The training is grounded in evidence about the bystander effect — the tendency for people to do nothing when others are present — and gives communities the confidence to act. What Active Bystander Training Is Active bystander training teaches people how to recognise harmful behaviour and intervene safely, without putting themselves at risk. Neighbourhood Watch explains that the bystander effect occurs when people hesitate to help in emergencies or when witnessing bullying, harassment, or crime. The training helps break that hesitation by giving people simple, practical tools. Why It Matters
What the Training Covers Neighbourhood Watch and local partners emphasise two core skills: Typical techniques include: How It Helps Communities Active bystander training: It empowers residents to be part of the solution — not by being heroes, but by taking small, safe actions that make a big difference. https://www.ourwatch.org.uk/activebystander
The Department for Transport has published a new interactive map showing drivers across England how local highway authorities are repairing roads and investing in long-term road maintenance. Drivers across England can now see how their local highway authority is tackling potholes and other road repairs thanks to a new interactive map published by the Government this week. The map uses a traffic light rating system to show every council’s rating – either red, amber or green – based on the current road condition, and reveals how each is spending funding received from Government to fix potholes and invest in long-term measures to maintain roads. In early December last year, the Government announced a “record £7.3 billion” in funding for local roads, promising to fix potholes and prevent new ones, save drivers money on costly repairs and make a visible difference in communities. Poorly maintained road surfaces, failing drainage, and unsafe footpaths and cycleways, all disproportionately endanger people walking, cycling, using mobility aids and riding motorbikes. Luca Straker, campaigns manager at Brake “Transparency about road maintenance is always welcome, and we know that potholes are a frustrating issue for many drivers. But fixing potholes is about far more than just protecting vehicles. “Following the Safe System approach to road safety, roads must be designed, built and maintained to account for human error and vulnerability, so that mistakes do not result in serious injury or death. Poorly maintained road surfaces, failing drainage, and unsafe footpaths and cycleways undermine this principle, and disproportionately endanger people walking, cycling, using mobility aids and riding motorbikes. “We are encouraged to see that the Government’s new council ratings include preventative maintenance, footpaths and cycleways, and recommendations for wider best practice. To align fully with the Safe System, this information must now be used to prioritise long-term investment that proactively reduces risk across the whole network, rather than reactive repairs once damage has already occurred. We urge Government and local highway authorities to ensure this new transparency leads to safer roads by design, embedding the Safe System approach at the heart of all road maintenance and funding decisions.” Click here to view and download the new interactive map.
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