Thread: oh shit

Originally Posted by Smartie

A contributing factor to unsolved burgs is the fact that a lot of victims do not have accurately recorded serial number/identifiers etc on the items taken - unfortunately black flat screen TV is pretty generic and when a property is searched unless the items have been entered into the system prior to being found a lot of it cannot be returned.

Time delay is also important, unless its reported very soon (say 30 minutes max) after the event it is very hard to get a track away in an area with other members of the public around.

Offenders are very forensically savvy these days, gloves concealment etc not often fingerprints left to be taken.

There are firearms seized each day over the country, unfortunately or fortunately we live in a country where Police cannot just enter properties of interest and search them on a hunch.

When do they ever look for fingerprints in the first place to find out if any have or have not been left?