Locust Police Department issued the following announcement on Oct. 26.
The Locust Police Department is reminding city residents and visitors to take common sense steps to protect your vehicle and valuables that you may have inside your vehicle. In particular:
1) When you are away from your vehicle, keep your vehicle doors LOCKED.
2) Keep any valuables out of your vehicle preferably, but if you have items you do not want to lose, keep them concealed in a LOCKED vehicle.
3) Never leave spare keys anywhere in or on your vehicle.
Remember that vehicle break-ins and particularly unlocked vehicle break-ins are "crimes of opportunity". If you limit or eliminate the "opportunity", more times than not you also eliminate the crime.
Original source can be found here.
Source: Locust Police Department
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