Camden New Journal
[UK]
11 February 2015
By WILLIAM
McLENNAN
MEMBERS of the
public have been warned to be on the lookout for symbols scrawled on their
property that are believed to alert would-be burglars to soft targets.
A table of
markings, said by police to be a secret code used by criminals to “highlight
potential targets”, was sent to members of tenants’ and leaseholders’ groups on
Tuesday.
The symbols are
said to denote observations about the security of a property, including
“vulnerable female” and “good target”, but police said they were not aware of a
“particular problem in Camden” at the moment.
One of those to
receive the warning, Petra Dando, who chairs Camden Association of Street
Properties, said she had passed the message to many of the association’s 6,500
members. […]
