London, Ont. police share tips on preventing ‘porch pirates’ this holiday season – London | 24CA News
London, Ont., police are sharing tricks to forestall Londoners from falling sufferer to ‘porch pirates’ this vacation season.
The time period refers to thieves who steal packages delivered to folks’s homes.
According to Sterling Morris from Prevent Package Theft, a bunch devoted to serving to others forestall their packages from being stolen, round 25 per cent of Canadians have been victims of porch piracy.
“In 2020, a FedEx Express Canada survey found that one in four Canadians has had their package stolen from their porch (and) it’s only growing,” Morris stated, including that roughly 75 per cent of Canadians store on-line.
Const. Barry MacDonald with the London Police Service recommends putting in video doorbells or safety cameras to discourage potential porch pirates.
However, he emphasised that safety cameras should be positioned on the proper top.
“A lot of times when we have people giving us security footage, it’ll be a top-down view, so placement of the cameras is really important to us.”
In addition, police suggest having packages delivered at a time when you already know you’re dwelling, having them delivered to a publish workplace or offering directions comparable to inserting packages behind a bush to cover them.
If your package deal does get stolen, MacDonald says to report it to police.
“If you have something that’s supposed to be delivered and you know that it has been stolen, you should absolutely call the police to report it.”
Morris additionally recommends contacting the shipper and service within the occasion of a stolen package deal.
“If you had a package stolen, contact (the shipper) and file a report,” he stated. “You should also reach out to the carrier and let them know the package they said was delivered was not on your doorstep.”
Morris additionally recommends buying a lockable package deal supply field that homeowners unlock with a key.
Morris says buying package deal insurance coverage or utilizing an indication that states the premise is monitored by cameras is also efficient at curbing the possibilities of attracting porch pirates.
-with information from 980 CFPL’s Mike Stubbs and Maya Reid
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