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‘We don’t lock our doors’: Residents of burglary-hit estates along Holland Road
Christine Tan
Suspects from an international housebreaking syndicate allegedly broke into two houses along Bukit Sedap Road in July. ST PHOTO: GIN TAY
SINGAPORE - For years, when she left her Mount Sinai home, she would not lock the front gate.
Ms Susan, a resident in her 60s, said the area was safe and house break-ins were not an issue.
Then came news last week that a couple of homes in the Holland Road area had been burgled, allegedly targeted by a syndicate.
Now, worried residents are locking up and testing burglar alarms to avoid being the next victim.
The Straits Times reported on Aug 2 that an international housebreaking syndicate allegedly targeted the Bukit Sedap Road area, off Holland Road.
ST understands two houses there were hit.
After one of the victims made a police report on July 27, a Chinese national believed to be a syndicate member was arrested.
On Aug 5, ST visited landed estates in the Holland Road area.
Some residents said they were alarmed by the recent incidents, and that the police had visited them last week, handing out a crime prevention advisory.
The advisory said the culprits were believed to have entered houses either through the front, side, rear or kitchen doors, or windows.
Ms Susan, who has lived in Mount Sinai for over 20 years and declined to give her full name, said: “This area had always been very safe for us. We didn’t lock our doors during the day. If there were people in the house, I would probably just lock the front door and go off. I didn’t bother to padlock the gate.
“Now we’re getting a bit frightened – I lock both because I don’t want (the burglars) to come when my children are home.”
She plans to upgrade her CCTV system, and install timer lights in her house to deter would-be burglars.
A contractor who has worked around the Bukit Sedap area for about a decade said the side gate of one of the burgled houses was usually unlocked.
The contractor, who declined to be named, said a padlock was installed on the gate last week, after the break-ins.
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