Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Advice

Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Advice

🚗 Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Advice | Seven Sisters SNT

Motor vehicle crime continues to affect communities across London. Thieves are often looking for easy opportunities, so a few simple precautions can help keep your vehicle and valuables safe.

✅ Protect Your Vehicle

Always lock your vehicle, even if leaving it unattended for only a few minutes.

Close all windows, sunroofs and secure doors properly.

Never leave valuables on display, including mobile phones, handbags, laptops, tools, shopping bags, chargers, cash or keys.

Remove sat-navs and wipe away suction-cup marks and holder mounts, which can indicate valuables may be stored in the vehicle.

Do not store house keys, garage door openers or important documents inside your vehicle.

Park in well-lit areas and where possible use secure car parks monitored by CCTV.

Consider installing steering wheel locks, tracking devices or vehicle immobilisers for added security.

If you own a keyless vehicle, store keys away from doors and windows and consider using a signal-blocking pouch (Faraday pouch).

🔒 Protect Your Valuables With Property Marking

Many stolen items are recovered by police but cannot always be returned to their owners because ownership cannot be identified.

Registering your valuables on a recognised property database can help police identify and return recovered property.

📱 Register Your Property Online

We encourage residents to register valuable items such as:

Mobile phones

Laptops and tablets

Bicycles

Power tools

Cameras

Jewellery

Gaming consoles

You can register your property free of charge using:

➡️ Immobilise Property Register: https://www.immobilise.com

Record serial numbers, take photographs of valuable items and keep receipts where possible. This information can be extremely useful if your property is lost or stolen.

👮 Report Crime and Suspicious Activity

If you witness suspicious behaviour around vehicles, please report it:

Online: https://www.met.police.uk

Non-emergency: 101

Emergency (crime in progress): 999

Crimestoppers (anonymous): 0800 555 111

Working together, we can reduce vehicle crime and keep Seven Sisters safer for everyone.

Seven Sisters Safer Neighbourhood Team
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🚗Lock it. Hide it. Remove it. Register it. Don't give thieves an opportunity. Keep valuables out of sight and register them on Immobilise to help police return stolen property to its rightful owner. #SevenSistersSNT

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Matabur Rahman
(Metropolitan Police, PCSO, Seven Sisters SNT)