7 Things That Make Burglars SKIP a House (Most UK Homeowners Miss Them)
Oliver Bennett
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Somebody walks down your street this evening, looks at eleven houses, and picks one. Everything that happens afterwards was decided on a pavement in about the time it takes to walk past. So this is about the seven things that make somebody look at your house and simply carry on walking — and at least one is the exact opposite of what almost everybody believes, including a great many people who have spent real money on the belief. In this video I go through all seven, with the police guidance and the security standard for each on screen as I say it.
Here is what we cover:
Why police guidance says a LOW front boundary, around one metre, beats a high one
Why a high front wall is a barrier for four seconds and then becomes cover
The two cylinder standards worth writing down, and why a rating is a test result rather than a review
BS 3621 and the 5-lever mortice lock for wooden doors, usually an insurance requirement too
Why the police describe a low white dusk-to-dawn light rather than a motion floodlight
The conditional buried in the alarm advice: signage works IF it is used with an active system
How ladders are used to reach upper windows and get round ground-floor alarm sensors
The three places keys should never be, including two nobody thinks about
Why CCTV is "no substitute" for physical security, in the police's own words
What to do if somebody is actually inside — the one part that is not about prevention
Everything here is tied to real sources, including the police.uk and Met "Keep burglars out of your property" guidance, West Yorkshire Police home security advice, the Secured by Design pages on locks, and ONS Crime in England and Wales for the year ending March 2026, all checked 23 September 2026.
One honest note, and it is why this is shorter on drama than most. There is no statistic here about how many seconds somebody spends deciding, no percentage of burglaries that are opportunistic, and nothing a convicted burglar supposedly said in a survey. All of it circulates constantly and none is on a police page. I have also named no alarm, camera or lock brand — two standards instead, because a standard is a test result and a brand is a marketing decision.
FREE HELP FIRST. Every item here is on a police website for nothing, and your local force's crime prevention pages carry the same advice for your area.
Knowing what to say when it is the police at your door rather than anybody else is exactly what Make Them Pay is built for.
📘 Get the full handbook on stops, searches and what to say: https://knowrightsuk.gumroad.com/l/ma...
England and Wales — Scotland has its own arrangements. General information about published guidance, not advice about your property or insurance. If somebody is inside your home, that is 999, immediately.
Has your street had a spate of this? Type the county, nothing else.
#homesecurity #burglary #ukcrime #crimeprevention #ukhomes
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7 Things That Make Burglars SKIP a House (Most UK Homeowners Miss Them)
Oliver Bennett
19,782 views
📘 Get Make Them Pay here: https://knowrightsuk.gumroad.com/l/ma...
Somebody walks down your street this evening, looks at eleven houses, and picks one. Everything that happens afterwards was decided on a pavement in about the time it takes to walk past. So this is about the seven things that make somebody look at your house and simply carry on walking — and at least one is the exact opposite of what almost everybody believes, including a great many people who have spent real money on the belief. In this video I go through all seven, with the police guidance and the security standard for each on screen as I say it.
Here is what we cover:
Why police guidance says a LOW front boundary, around one metre, beats a high one
Why a high front wall is a barrier for four seconds and then becomes cover
The two cylinder standards worth writing down, and why a rating is a test result rather than a review
BS 3621 and the 5-lever mortice lock for wooden doors, usually an insurance requirement too
Why the police describe a low white dusk-to-dawn light rather than a motion floodlight
The conditional buried in the alarm advice: signage works IF it is used with an active system
How ladders are used to reach upper windows and get round ground-floor alarm sensors
The three places keys should never be, including two nobody thinks about
Why CCTV is "no substitute" for physical security, in the police's own words
What to do if somebody is actually inside — the one part that is not about prevention
Everything here is tied to real sources, including the police.uk and Met "Keep burglars out of your property" guidance, West Yorkshire Police home security advice, the Secured by Design pages on locks, and ONS Crime in England and Wales for the year ending March 2026, all checked 23 September 2026.
One honest note, and it is why this is shorter on drama than most. There is no statistic here about how many seconds somebody spends deciding, no percentage of burglaries that are opportunistic, and nothing a convicted burglar supposedly said in a survey. All of it circulates constantly and none is on a police page. I have also named no alarm, camera or lock brand — two standards instead, because a standard is a test result and a brand is a marketing decision.
FREE HELP FIRST. Every item here is on a police website for nothing, and your local force's crime prevention pages carry the same advice for your area.
Knowing what to say when it is the police at your door rather than anybody else is exactly what Make Them Pay is built for.
📘 Get the full handbook on stops, searches and what to say: https://knowrightsuk.gumroad.com/l/ma...
England and Wales — Scotland has its own arrangements. General information about published guidance, not advice about your property or insurance. If somebody is inside your home, that is 999, immediately.
Has your street had a spate of this? Type the county, nothing else.
#homesecurity #burglary #ukcrime #crimeprevention #ukhomes