For most of us, our home is our safe place. It\u2019s a somewhere to come back to after a day at work, to raise a family in and to relax in. But how safe is it in reality?<\/p>\n
The number of burglaries in the UK are falling. The incidents in 2015 were down 33% from the same period 10 years earlier (Jan-Dec 2005) and 70% just 20 years ago (Jan-Dec 1995).<\/p>\n
However, according to the Office for National Statistics, there were 401,718 police-reported burglaries between January 2015 and December 2015 \u2013 giving a burglary rate at 7 offences per 1,000 people. Take a look at this infographic <\/strong><\/a>by Ironmongery Direct<\/strong><\/a> to see how home security has evolved over the years and what to expect in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For most of us, our home is our safe place. It\u2019s a somewhere to come back to after a day at work, to raise a family in and to relax in. But how safe is it in reality? The number of burglaries in the UK are falling. The incidents in 2015 were down 33% from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1183],"tags":[1055],"class_list":["post-10622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-security","tag-featured","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/image.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10624,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10622\/revisions\/10624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}