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Thanks for the responses
Whale’s response gave me plenty of food for thought. I’ll suggest the hingey thing on the door and perhaps we can get those swipey cards retro fitted to for all doors in the basement. And perhaps a mix of actual and dummy cameras is the answer.
We townhousers actually upped our security as individuals and have paid for our own bolts as thieves had reefed open our doors and taken odd things (like my bag of goodies for charity or a rope from a neighbour’s garage. Ignoring the dvd and tv in my garage and the wine in my neighbour’s). Go figure right!
The reason cctv has arisen again, is that each time there’s an issues, police say if there were footage for them to view it would assist them.
Here’s the kicker – we did have a covert camera for our malicious damager. The police viewed the footage and stills. He didn’t cover up. We knew it was him. We knew which unit he lived in and pointed the police there AND his workplace. The police couldn’t get him as he scarped (sadly a few residents taped the pix to his unit door with things like “sprung” written on them). This bloke has a serious record for offending as well. Anyhow he is no longer part of our community, and we are a community, despite my moaning about $$
Thank you all again for your wise words.