My mum and handicapped brother just got robbed

[NorthernRaider]

Well there is a lesson to be learned from this mess, Its all fine and dandy having preps, protocols and security arrangements but if a member of your family / group does not adhere to those plans or think for themselves the preps are useless. Each family needs everyone to be onboard and motivated if your security plans are going to work.

In my case my brother went and answered a knock at the back door!!! A door that is inaccessible to callers because its in the back yar of a terraced house behind 10 ft high walls and a padlocked back gate. Set aside his handicap he should have known that was abnormal and wrong and just dialled 999.

I've seen similar security plans fail at the first fence because someone does not follow agreed procedure , one was not locking the car doors when driving through Middlesbrough in an area where bag snatching ambushed cars waiting at traffic lights, and another was a female I know who had been told a dozen times that her shoulder bag needs to be swung to the front of her body when she walks through London cos the local were slicing bags open and nicking gear on women whose bags were drapped over their bums.

We just cannot plan for stupidity no matter how hard we try.