Crime Prevention Exhibition in Portsmouth
| Published date | 01 November 1962 |
| Date | 01 November 1962 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X6203500612 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
From a Special Correspondent
tJrime
Prevention
Exllibition
in
Portsmoutll
MORE
THAN
25,000 members of the public visited Cosham police
station during the 10 days of the Crime Prevention Exhibition held
there by the Portsmouth City Police, about one in nine of the city's
population. Many visitors took advantage
of
the police offer
to visit their homes and business premises to give advice on methods
of improving security, and over 500 bicycles were registered with
the police.
The exhibition included stands from leading manufacturers
of
safes, locks, burglar alarms, and locking devices for motor vehicles
and pedal cycles. Special alarm bags and waistcoats designed to
permit the safe carrying of large sums of money are also demon-
strated. Crime prevention films were shown, and there were innumer-
able other stands, displays and photographs, each embodying a
crime prevention lesson. Most of these were prepared and designed
by members of the Portsmouth Force.
Outstanding was a display of paintings made by a Force artist to
warnyoung childrennot to speak to strange men, or to accept gifts or
rides in cars from them. They were much
admired
by Junior School
mistresses, who brought organized parties of school children to the
exhibition, and arrangements have been made for colour slides of the
paintings to be supplied for instruction purposes to schools desiring
them.
To emphasize the danger of using the old type of fire-proof safe
for depositing large sums of money, several were displayed which
had been recently forced open in Portsmouth. Visitors who admit
that they daily lock money in such safes were shocked to hear of the
ease with which these could be forced open. There was also a display
of modern
safes-proof
against all methods of attack by the criminal.
This was the first Crime Prevention Exhibition held in Portsmouth,
and the results were immediately apparent. After the first week
members of the public were already improving the security
of
their
homes and shop premises;
"999"
calls reporting suspicious
incidents were increasing, and many arrests had been made as the
result of them. A great deal of hard work had gone into the planning
of
the exhibition, and it had proved to be wellworth while.
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