The best home locks, doorbells and alarms to deter burglars

“It feels a bit lawless at the moment,” Jenny*, a homeowner living in an east London terrace with her partner and two children, says. There has been a spike in burglaries in her neighbourhood recently. “Our neighbours were burgled during the day with no repercussions for the burglars, despite images of the offenders and addresses known of where they live,” she says.

Just 4.3 per cent of residential burglary offences were assigned a charge/summons in England and Wales in 2023-24 (a slight increase compared with 3.9 per cent the previous year), according to the Office for National Statistics. Almost three quarters (73.3 per cent) of cases were closed owing to no suspect being identified.

Burglary rates have dipped to record lows in recent years, with

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