Burglars Awaken from 'Coronaslaap'
The number of burglaries in Brabant is increasing again, while burglars kept strikingly quiet at the height of the coronacrisis. This is according to research by insurer Interpolis in Tilburg. With the burglary barometer, the insurer can predict the risk of a home burglary. Based on that data, the insurer expects the burglary risk to be 'at the old level again within three weeks'.
The trend that the Tilburg insurer signals is underlined by the police. "If the trend of the past two weeks continues, we will be back on as many home burglaries this month as in June last year," says Sybren van der Velden, national project leader home burglary at the National Police.
In these neighborhoods, burglary risk is highest according to the burglary barometer:
- Oud-Noord in Tilburg (postcode area 5046). On a scale of 1 to 10, the burglary risk here is now 7.9.
- The center of Den Bosch (postcode area 5211), burglary risk 7.8.
- The center of Breda (postcode area 4811), also 7.8.
- Oud-Woensel in Eindhoven (postcode area 5612), also 7.8.
According to a spokesperson for Interpolis, these figures are comparable to the burglary risk in North and South Holland. So high. "Brabant is in the top," he says.
Risk dropped to zero
It is striking that in the first three weeks of May the burglary risk in Brabant even dropped to zero. This does not mean that there was no break -in at all. The burglary risk is based on data from damage reports, data from the police and the Central Bureau of Statistics.
"When people are a lot of home and when there is a burglary wave in a certain area, you see the burglary risk rise. This is now in many places. We see that the number of postcodes has doubled with an increased burglary risk," says the spokesperson.
Again more often from home
The police and the insurer are not so strange that the risk of home burglaries is increasing again. "Because of the relaxation of the corona measures, we are more often away from home. And when we are not at home, burglars simply strike faster."
The Tilburg insurer therefore warns people of the coming holiday period.
Source: Omroep Brabant