1 essay how to car theft prevention
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HOW TO PREVENT CAR THEFT
Statistics have shown that theft vehicles in Malaysia from 1980 to 2005 is increasing every year, but it
began to decline from 2005 to 2010. This may be due to the awareness of people about the
importance of the safety of their vehicles as well as law enforcement authorities.
A few steps can be taken to prevent this crime from happening is such as not leaving any valuables in
the car. Many of us are careless or negligent and often leave valuable items in the car, for instance, a
laptop. The thieves are fast thinker, they can manage to burst the cars easily. The thieves are also
intelligents, they can still find your laptops in hidden places in your car because they have tools to
detect your laptops because laptops produced a kind of frequency. Eventhough you have pulled your
laptop’s battery, the battery on the motherboard to switch the memory and clock on your laptop is
still available to be detected. The battery charges can produce a frequency that could easily be
detected by the thieves. This also applied to other electronic devices like digital cameras and so on.
So,the safer way is that you should never leave valuable items in your car.
Some of us believe that by locking the steering lock on the steering wheel is the best way to prevent
the thieves from stealing our cars. As mentioned before, the thieves are intelligent, so it is easier for
them to cut the steering lock and drive away your cars. The best way here is to lock the clutch pedal
or gear stick lock to lock our cars. Many thieves will target only the steering wheel as this is among
the most porous parts. To overcome this problem, we can provide a switch to turn on and off the
engine starter. This switch must be hidden and known only by the owner and those who borrow the
car. We can start the engine if the switch is on and it will not active if the switch is off. This switch
system is for a lower budget. Therefore, for those who have more budgets, they can install an
immobilizer system which is a system that only the owner of car is the key.
Sometimes, some of us are show off person, they will tell others that they are using the most secure
alarm system, the most expensive alarm system, and so forth. We must know that, each current
systems have their own drawbacks. We should keep a secret, so that thieves will not know how to
bypass the alarm system quickly.
Location also plays an important role in the case of car theft. If you have a garage, always put your
car in it when you are at home. Make sure to lock the car although it is in the garage. If we park the
vehicles by the road, do parking in the bright area and can be seen by the public easily. Try to park in
the light or near security cameras or parking attendants when parking in the public lots. These will
reduce the interest of car thef.
The security of our vehicles is depend to our own responsibilities and awareness. Strategies
discussed above can help to prevent theft and maintain our cars’ safety thus will be reducing vehicle
theft statistics.