When i said "I know a little about crime, security and crime prevention" take that as tongue and cheek, It's my job and i get rewarded handsomely for my knowledge and experience.
Gold secure and Thatcham are not the be all and end all in security grading, however they are the only 2 in the country that we have that give a grading of similar products from different manufacturers and therefore allow us to be able to compare how secure similar products from different manufactures are. So if we buy a product that has one of the highest ratings from one of these two we know that the chances are that there won't be many if any more secure products on the market. Rather than take a guess and buy a product from the manufactures marketing.
A big part of security is advice of how to use the product, as many people have pointed out the anchor will not be in the middle of a nice industrial unit floor for you to work on in relative ease with tools of your choice, it will be in a corner or on a wall behind the item that you want to steal.
There are two types of thief, The professional and opportunistic scrote.
The scrote will not normally do too much damage to your property force a door or window but most likely through an open window or door (Thats why they are opportunistic) and take what ever is desirable by the masses and therefore easy to move on. The scrote will not carry any tools and if he needs to force entry will use whatever tools are available at the property, as he will be known to the police and likely to be stop and searched which would leave him liable to arrest for "going equipped" if he was found with any tools on his person. He would only return if there were high value items that weren't locked in anyway but this is very unlikely as he is opportunistic and his life doesn't have much structure.
Normally after someone has been a victim of crime, their firist reaction is to up the security so it doesn't happen again. Thus if/when the scrote decides to return he is faced with more security than he was pepared for and will not bother but we will never know this.
The professional thief will turn up with an array of tools and will take the first time what he came to get. He will not return.
Now that's enough work on one of my rare days off.
