An Garda Siochana have urged members of the public to download their new app that speeds up the process of reporting the theft of property.
The app is part of gardai's winter phase of Operation Thor, which is designed to prevent potential burglars from exploiting the reduced hours of daylight. Officers say that burglaries can soar by 20 per cent this time of year and is most likely to occur during the hours of 5pm to 9pm on a Thursday, Friday, or Saturday during winter.
The winter phase of Operation Thor begins tomorrow, October 1 and will run until the end of March. Gardai say that since it's implementation in 2015, burglaries have declined. To date this year, there have been 6,100 residential burglaries reported but during the same period in 2019 there were 10,297.
