Criminal Damage

Criminal damage refers to crimes where a person intentionally or recklessly destroys or causes damage to another person's property. Criminal damage, often referred to as vandalism, includes graffiti, arson and other forms of damage to property. It affects households, vehicles, commercial premises and public areas.
You may be surprised to hear that nearly half of all criminal damage is caused by items such as stones, sticks, bricks and rocks left lying around in streets and gardens and picked up and thrown through windows.
 
Criminals committing this type of damage do not deliberately leave their homes with a hand full of stones or other articles intending to do damage to other peoples property. This type of damage is usually impulsive where an offender sees a stone or a brick and thinks, “what can I damage with this" or again, on impulse, decides to damage a window and then look for something close at hand to achieve their purpose.

What can you do?

If you can remove the stones and other items from view, we can eliminate a great deal of the criminal damage caused in our communities. 

Always retract Aerials and Door Mirrors on cars.
 
It only takes a few simple measures to prevent this type of crime happening to us and blighting our neighbourhoods.