Having
break-in or burglary can be a nightmare, imagine coming home after a night out
or a few days away and finding that your window is broken or your door broken
and ajar and then there is the fear of thinking that someone might actually
still be inside your home laying in wait after being disturbed by you suddenly
coming home, what do you do?
The first
thing to do of course is to call the police and report the break-in right away,
most people in this day and age carry around a mobile phone anyway so this
isn't the major obstacle it used to be where people had to call on a neighbour
or find a pay phone. However, if you are on your own it's advisable that you do
call on a neighbour you can trust who will wait with you until the police
arrive.
Most recent burglary
statistics from the Crime Survey for England & Wales (CSEW) show that there
were an estimated 6.5 million incidents of crime against households last year
so if it's any comfort at all you are not alone and people go through this on a
daily basis.
After the
police finally arrive, which can take a while especially in rural areas, and
have inspected your premises to make sure that no one is still inside and your
home is safe for you to enter they will expect you to give them a list of
everything that is missing or broken and finally after telling you that they
rarely catch burglars they will give you a crime reference number and be on
their way, but what now?
Now you need
to secure your home as you can't sleep in house all night with a broken door or
window. You need to find yourself a local emergency locksmith
who offers a 24 hour call-out service in your area, a majority will do both
boarding up and Lock replacement.
Our course
no one uses telephone or business directories anymore and why anyone would use
a £3 a minute directory enquiry number when a Google search is free is beyond
me so you need to turn to the internet and do a search for things like
emergency locksmith or 24 hour locksmith, you can add your area to the search but
most search engines whether on a computer or smartphone will know your location
and should show you the nearest results.
Beware of
sponsored or paid results as these are usually large Locksmith
Barnstaple call centres who will then contact a locksmiths on their
books on your behalf, the price is typically more that you would pay going
direct as the call centre needs to take their cut and many will give you the
run-around making you wait hours or even until the morning because they either have
no one on call during the night or they don't actually have a locksmith in your
area and don't want to lose your business.
Many people
are unaware that they have contacted a national call centre because they came
up in local searches and their telephone number looked local so when browsing
the search engine results look for a genuine, local, independent locksmith in
your area who says on their website that they are on call 24/7, many
independents won't even charge a call out fee and will just bill you for the
work carried out.
Devon
Locksmith are a 24 hour emergency locksmith
based in North Devon covering all the major towns and cities including Exeter,
Taunton, Barnstaple, Tiverton, Bideford, Ilfracombe, Bude, Braunton, South
Molton and Chulmleigh
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