beware of theft!

past few weeks we have received some complaints from residents concerning personal belongings went missing within their compound, in between the main doors & grill doors have gone missing, stolen items mainly are shoes, relatively new & more expensive shoes.

normally after we have heard this kind of complaint, we would try to find out from them roughly what date & time the event took place, and try our best to check the CCTV, but too bad almost every time we couldn't get the culprit because as long as the person(s) don't use the lift after stole the items then there's no way we can get him.

we did come across few incidents that items went missing at the ground floor common areas, and most of the time we can find the thieves & get the CCTV video clip for police to take further action, as most of the ground floor common area are covered by CCTV, but if items gone missing at corridor areas then not much can be done.

in fact according to our experience, most of the cases are committed by our own residents or tenants, we believe after they have stolen the items from residents' main entrance (or corridor), they will use the staircase to go back to their own units, so as the corridors & staircase are the blind spot of CCTV then their cowardly action won't be recorded :(

our advice is, keep those more costly items in the house or inside the shoe rack (make sure the shoe rack is out of reach if someone try to open it out the grill door), because the management can't do much unless we install CCTV at all the corridor but it's impossible at the moment as the cost is very very very high.

let's beware of the thieves, thanks.