POLICE are reminding residents about the risks of leaving windows open during the warm season.
Every year, when the weather starts to warm up, police start to see a rise in burglary reports. This is because of more windows being left open.
In the UK, these spikes in 'unforced burglaries' begin around May and carry on until September.
A large number of these burglaries will occur with victims asleep in bed.
Police advise residents to only open windows that are inaccessible from outside, this will exclude windows in the basement, ground floor and those on floor which are accessible by climbing.
Accessible windows by climbing would include those next to a soil or rainwater pipe and those onto a flat or climbable pitched roof.
Child locks and casement windows fitted with a secondary locking point should also be locked fully when residents go out.
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