Safeguarding Property

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31027, 5 April 1966, Page 16

Safeguarding Property

Sir,—Not for the first time, our police have, so to speak, been wagging an admonitory truncheon at members of the public who have failed to take reasonable, or even rudimentary, precautions to safeguard their cars and premises from the attentions of marauders: and nobody would gainsay the right of the police to expect this measure of cooperation from those whose property it is their traditional role to protect. Just a minute, though. There are olenty of good citizens who, in spite of all their precautions, have been the victims of theft, burglary, and other forms of skullduggery, not to mention vandalism. In a world of increasing lawlessness, these, and others, may also feel tempted to become a trifle admonitory, to look our legislators in the eye, and say, “And what are you doing about it?”—Yours, etc., ILA?,I. April 4, 1966.