Combination vs. keyed locks

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I just received an email from one of our PENS members that showed a video on how to open a combination lock without using force (and if you don't know the combination I might add). I am not going to forward the video to you for the same reason I did not share the video on Lock Bumping several months ago. Why, because I have learned that it works and I don't want to teach you how to pick someone else's combination lock. Besides, I'm sure it's going to make the rounds anyway.

But, I tried the technique and I was to open a combination lock using it. It took me probably less than 5 seconds. So this could explain how lockers are being entered at our fitness centers when the victim returns to find his locker still locked but items missing from the locker. I tried this technique on combination locks and on keyed locks. I was only able to open the combination locks. So, from here forward, I will be using only keyed locks on anything I want to keep secured. That decision is yours. Food for thought.

Please remember to visit our website at www.p4.police.cobbcountyga.gov for the PENS Dispatch, daily crime reports, crime stats, crime prevention and questions and answers.

Should your neighborhood have a Neighborhood Watch Coordinator, please share this information.

Lieutenant Mark Chenoweth

Cobb County Police Department

Crimes Against Property

Precinct 4

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