i recently moved into a new house. My street is pretty much a new block (the house are newly built and people just moved in recently. My next street however is quite an old area, lots of the houses are unmaintaned (a couple of nice ones too though). The thing is I experience a couple of incidents since I moved in, nothing major thankfully, but things like random people peeking over my fence (next to mu house is an empty block of land. Shoes and sandals got stolen when left at the door (they were my friends who came to visit for about 20 minutes. Light bulbs (garage and front porch) got stolen. I mean so far they are all small things, so not sure if I should bother the police and report it.
Recently however, I keep on getting anonymous door bells (when I arrive at the door, no one is there). And on the empty land next to my house, someone put chairs pressumably to peek onto my backyard. I mean random people keep throwing rubbish on the empty land, which I reported to the council and they couldn't do much anyway. But this time the chair is actually put right next to my fence.
The thing is I don't know where should I report this to. Should I report to the police. And yesterday my garderner parked his truck outside the house and got his wallet (and other stuff stolen). But he didn't lock his car, so kind of partly his fault. I talked to my neighbours, they are pretty new to the area as well and told me that once they saw 2 teenagers peeking through the windows of one of the houses. But since not actual crime happened, should we report it? Is it a crime to peek through windows/over the fence? Will the police deal with such petty crimes?
Buy some security cameras, but mount them inside your windows!
ASAP