The Registered User scheme represents an excellent saving even for the casual user. This is an extremely popular option and is taken up by more than 13,500 staff and students each year. The majority of such incidents relate to cash and small valuable items taken from jackets, handbags and briefcases left unattended in corridors, offices, libraries and laboratories. Thefts of bicycles continue to be a problem. The extent and complexity of the University's buildings make it difficult to arrange wholly effective protective measures and the need for everyone to be alert to the problem of crime and to do everything possible to prevent it cannot be emphasised too strongly.
Thefts are usually a direct result of carelessness on the part of the victim.
Property can best be safeguarded if students are constantly alert to the need to close and lock doors and windows and not to leave valuable articles or cash lying about for any thief to pick up. Cycle owners should secure their machines with a strong steel link chain passed around the frame and the rear wheel and then secured to a cycle rack or other immovable objects with a close-shackle padlock. Cycles should be checked as often as possible and removed from the precinct as soon as practicable. It is not permissible to take cycles into buildings. If there is someone in your department, hall of residence or flat unit whom you do not know, start asking questions and if you are not satisfied as to their identity let the Security Office or police know.