Security when on site

When we are on site we use a hitch lock and an awning.  I .....

Easily sorted with a Stanley knife 

Write your comments here... I cannot see a thief using a Stanley knife to remove an awning on site as it would attract attention. Frankly an awning is so time consuming to remove I just do not see it happening but you never know.

Time consuming? Hence the use of a Stanley knife 

Unfortunately MM that is exactly what happened on a site near Kendal a few years ago.  

Not to me I must add.

If someone wants to steal a caravan from a site they are going to have to do it during the daytime.  At night the van will be occupied.  Anyone stealing a van would presumably not want to draw attention to it.  Using a Stanley knife to cut down an awning is going to look a tad suspicious and the thief could be seen at any time by anyone on site.  Also, stealing a van from a site would probably be the work of an opportunist thief - you couldn't plan a theft - you would never know if the occupants would be about during the day, when the occupants would return or when the van would be moved.

I'm not saying that caravans are not stolen from sites, and accept that all these things could and have happened, but I think they are much more likely to be stolen from storeage, or from outside someone's house at night, when there is no-one about or when everyone is asleep, rather than from an occupied site .

David

Hitch lock only, club sites must be safer than fort knox and any untoward behaviour would soon be noted on a clipboard and posted on here, and that's before they got out of their vehicle.  

On a club site there is virtually no opportunity to steal a complete caravan, but accessories and bicycles can be valid targets for the bad people on certain sites.

This forum provides info about about sites where theft is rampant.

For example due to the info on this forum I would never consider going to Clumber Park.  this is the beauty of helpfulness of this forum.

K.

I went to Clumber Park once, just for a look around, for somewhere to stay near Nottingham.  Metal bars at every pitch, (evidently to chain your bikes to !) And Beware Thieves are about, notices everywhere. Doesnt look very inviting, IS it as bad as that ?As  its in a lovely posistion. 

I went to Clumber Park once, just for a look around, for somewhere to stay near Nottingham.  Metal bars at every pitch, (evidently to chain your bikes to !) And Beware Thieves are about, notices everywhere. Doesnt look very inviting, IS it as bad as that ?As  its in a lovely posistion. 

If yyou go the Abbey Wood on the outskirts of London, there's razor wire ontop of the perimeter fence ..... couldn't decide if it was to keep them out or us in! 

I guess that everyone's first priority must be to comply with the terms of their insurance policy, after that it's all to do with visual deterrents. We've had Milenco locks in the past, which independent 'professional thief tests' show as taking longer for us to fit than the thief to remove. Hitch locks are normally levered off by professionals while wheel locks have the locks smashed off - very quickly. Extensive dialogues on CT supported by people with industry experience have made it clear that radio based alarm systems are defeated by signal blockers and lockers can be opened by cutting through their nylon hinge pins with a Stanley knife. Protection against opportunist thieves mainly relies on visual deterrents causing them to chose an easier target. Our bicycles are secured to the caravan chassis with a heavy duty cable and an alarmed padlock - how would its tiny battery hold up in reality? Our solar panel is also tethered to the chassis, and I even saw someone at an air rally who had chained his aquarolls to the van. I assume that he'd lost one in the past. In truth, if a professional thief wants your van, then they will probably take it. A question to ponder - where do you leave your security device locks when you go out for a walk?

 .... A question to ponder - where do you leave your security device locks when you go out for a walk?

On the caravan 

Leave a pair of those rubberised slip-on shoes beloved by caravanners outside with a sign "Beware of the crocs"

Just hang a sign on the front of the van ,saying  "this caravan is full of damp",......and even the thieves wont want it.......