Police issue car keys security warning

9:00am Monday 4th February 2013 in News By Steve Wright, Crime Reporter

Police have urged householders to sleep with their car keys as part of a raft of crime prevention measures to protect their homes.

The warnings follow a heartbreaking raid at a house in Bradford, during which a disability car, containing six-year-old Tyla Anguige’s wheelchair and specially-made walking frame, was stolen.

Tyla, who has a severe form of cerebral palsy, is due to undergo spinal surgery this week and needs the stolen equipment to help with vital physiotherapy after the operation.

The raiders struck at the family’s home in Burnham Avenue, Bierley, Bradford, last week. It was discovered by a neighbour who saw their front door open and the living room light on.

Electrical items had been stolen from the living room and the family’s white BMW 1 series convertible, with the wheelchair and walking frame in the boot, was missing.

West Yorkshire Police advised householders to take keys to bed with them and keep them in a safe place out of sight. A spokesman said: “Don’t leave car keys, or any keys, on display on the kitchen top or in view of a window. Keep them by your bedside.”

Inspector Esther Hobbs, of the Bradford District Community Safety Partnership, said: “I would ask the public to take some simple steps to help themselves.

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“Measures such as making sure doors are locked, car keys are kept in places other than near your front or back door, and making sure your burglar alarm is switched on are obvious ways to reduce the risk.”

Tyla’s mother, Chrissy Jackson, 25, has urged anyone who knows the whereabouts of the wheelchair and walking frame to search their consciences and come forward.

Anyone with information can contact Bradford South CID, via 101, or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

Comments(19)

Cooperlane2 says...
9:15am Mon 4 Feb 13

The burglar will then enter your bedroom to offer violence if you dont hand over the keys

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ANY WHERE BUT HERE says...
10:14am Mon 4 Feb 13

The police used to say keep your possessions out of sight,now it's take them to bed? Where will we be in another ten years time,everybody doing compulsory karate to protect ourselves. The police has been proven to be the least trustworthy organisation going, they really need to be proving that there upto the job. But no they tell us how to hide our belongings.!

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Outraged English Subject says...
10:28am Mon 4 Feb 13

Cooperlane2 wrote:
The burglar will then enter your bedroom to offer violence if you dont hand over the keys
Scary but true.

Totally ridiculous advice, I take it from the statement that the cutbacks are taking hold.

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Albion. says...
11:08am Mon 4 Feb 13

Fair comment from the police, perhaps they might like to lobby the legal system as well, so that habitual thieves are locked away for longer (or shorter with an injection).

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scanipoos says...
11:38am Mon 4 Feb 13

If you have an alarmed car if you take them to bed can the alarm be activated from that distance, their-fore drawing attention to the need for help ..And at the same time if you hear a car alarm could it be someone calling for help. Sentences also need to also be addressed. It used to be commit 100 crimes before their sent to jail. Does that still stand?

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Outraged English Subject says...
12:36pm Mon 4 Feb 13

"so that habitual thieves are locked away for longer (or shorter with an injection)."


That should be applied to druggies; you’ll find that they are usually the habitual thieves. A great suggestion!!!

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The Hoffster says...
1:19pm Mon 4 Feb 13

"Police have urged householders to sleep with their car key.."

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That's disgusting.

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Not so simple says...
1:23pm Mon 4 Feb 13

Time to get a gun license. The law needs to be adapted so we can defend our person and property.

Police cannot protect us and it's getting worse.

The way the economy is going (down), one can expect crime and fear of crime to rise. Of course the MP's,local Plice authority and other bodies will keep reminding us how crime is falling and why we need fewer police constables to patrol the beats. Now they asking you in effect to have your belongings under the bed! What a joke

You feeling lucky punk?

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justjustice says...
4:06pm Mon 4 Feb 13

What good are the police today?

They do not do anything unless someone dies, for everything else there is a Crime Reference Number, and wherever possible it was damage caused by badgers so it doesnt count as a crime which helps reduce the crime in your area.

And look at what happened during the riots in Birmingham. The muslim and sikh community felt the only way to protect themselves was not to rely on the police but protect their own neighbourhoods. This of course led to 3 deaths as some rioters drove into them.

You can take this in two ways:
1) They should have left it to the police, if they stayed home they would not have died
2) If the community were not out protecting themselves, the rots could have spread into their neighbourhoods resulting in a lot more vandalism and crime.

Who's right? Well the same can go for gun control in the USA. Problem is at least they can protect themselves into he USA, we would have to go to court to prove that we were protecting ourselves, and of course used "reasonable force".

The country needs to change, and its clear voting Labour, Conservatives or LibDems will not make that change.
So "waste" your votes next election and vote for someone else, cos why waste it on these three useless parties which cater to the corporations and self-interests.

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Meerkat33 says...
6:31pm Mon 4 Feb 13

Why don't the T&A report that the little girl has got her walking frame back as it was found dumped, it's been reported in a national newspaper with a picture but yet our local fails to pick it up. Also there has been a spate of breakins around the BD4 area in the past few months.

http://www. thesun. co. uk/sol/homepage/news
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WayneRouke says...
7:07pm Mon 4 Feb 13

Hmmm

If I have to sleep with my car keys, tellyvision, xbox etc ect, where will I actually sleep and where will I put my teddy bear??

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RollandSmoke says...
8:50pm Mon 4 Feb 13

What if you haven't got any car keys, what do you do then eh? Is it wrong to sleep with someone else's car keys?

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WayneRouke says...
9:19pm Mon 4 Feb 13

RollandSmoke wrote:
What if you haven't got any car keys, what do you do then eh? Is it wrong to sleep with someone else's car keys?
IS that bigomykey

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jacko99 says...
10:27pm Mon 4 Feb 13

I have divorced my wife and I have now found a new loving partner, who I sleep with regulalry, her name is Mrs Car Keys.

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jacko99 says...
10:30pm Mon 4 Feb 13

Even though you are still allowed to smoke in your own house, do you have to stub it out when a burglar breaks in, as your house is now his workplace?

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jacko99 says...
10:34pm Mon 4 Feb 13

West Yorkshire Police are on the look out for a cross-eyed burglar.

They have stated, "If you see him peering in your front window, please warn the people next door."

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jacko99 says...
10:40pm Mon 4 Feb 13

My wife woke me up in the early hours saying can you hear something I thinks it's a burglar go and see.
I replied it might be a rapist you go and see.

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jacko99 says...
10:43pm Mon 4 Feb 13

I tell people I'm a removals man if they ask what I do.

Sounds a lot better than a burglar.

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jacko99 says...
10:43pm Mon 4 Feb 13

I was arrested for beating the **** out of a burglar last night.

"But I thought it was perfectly legal now?" I said to the police officer.

"Only if they come into your home," he replied, "Not if they're walking to a fancy dress party."

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