54 • hardware&security
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On top of the lucrative home
moving market, in recent
years there has been a steady
increase in the numbers of
burglaries where cylinders
have been attacked to gain
entry into the home. Again,
this provides locksmiths
with the opportunity to
educate homeowners of the
risks associated with ‘locksnapping’ and promote their
services to secure sales.
The police and security
industry have known about
lock-snapping issues for
several years, but because in
the early days the techniques
were used rarely and were
confined to only a few
locations around the UK,
primarily in Yorkshire, these
problems were deliberately not
broadcast to the public at large
for fear of making the problem
worse.
Instead, the security
industry quietly and quickly
developed measures to protect
the cylinders from these
attacks. With the m