Thanks honoroak, and good point.

I guess they're also making use of the fact that whilst normally, quite a few people are out and about in Garthorne Rd (lots of parents with prams and toddlers in tow, people tending to their front gardens, washing cars, walking dogs etc. and thereby posing a deterrent to those trying to break into properties), hardly anyone who didn't need to left their house in the last few days because of the cold.