PREVENTING CRIME
“House-Breaking” By Police (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter) LONDON. Police in Portsmouth are trying a new experiment aimed at preventing crime—they are “breaking into” people’s homes incognito. Two officers dressed in doth cap and overcoat and posing as Water Board officials, talked their way into 10 Portsmouth homes without their identity being discovered. Once inside, they had complete freedom of the houses. One of them commented: “The trick worked at every house. If I had gone to steal, I bet I could have cleaned up the best part of £200.” In each house, they left behind them a leaflet warning householders against admitting strangers. :
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19660208.2.82
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Press, Volume CV, Issue 30979, 8 February 1966, Page 9
Word count
Tapeke kupu
102PREVENTING CRIME Press, Volume CV, Issue 30979, 8 February 1966, Page 9
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
Ngā mihi
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in