Tips to Avoid Car Break-Ins

Unlocked vehicles make the easiest prey for car break-ins, and the September Cobb Police PENS (Police Email Notification System) report from East Cobb's Precinct 4 includes information on how to prevent becoming a victim: 

"Lock your vehicle doors and take your valuables with you."

While that may seem like common-sense advice, car break-ins in East Cobb quite often involve vehicles that are not locked, and that have items visible to would-be thieves. 

In fact, according to the report, a majority of late August "entering auto" incidents involved unlocked vehicles, primarily in apartments on Roswell Road and the Delk-Powers Ferry area. 

The report added that in early September there have been "an isolated number of entering autos" on Childers Road, near Shallowford Road. . . Open garage doors along with unlocked vehicles resulted in the offenders entering garages to go into the vehicles and at least one residence was burglarized."

There's more beat-by-beat information rounded up from this summer in Precinct 4 by clicking here. 

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