Number of burglaries drops, but few burglars are caught

The fall follows justice minister Ivo Opstelten’s decision last year to put burglaries at the centre of policing policy.

His aim is to reduce break-ins by 33 percent by 2017 compared with 2012 when there were 91,500 burglaries.

In 2013, the number fell 5 percent.

Burglar-proof

Most of the police effort is being put into encouraging people to make their homes more burglar-proof and into keeping victims informed on the progress of their case.

However, according to the AD, the number of burglars who are actually caught by the police is still very small.

Just one in four burglaries are solved, the paper says.