In Hirslanden: The police Cadalbert and Duke examine a car.
Two days ago it happened: burglar downstairs of a townhouse in Hirslanden, an upscale residential neighborhood in the heart of Zurich. Massive houses from the turn of the century, surrounded by old trees bear witness to the wealth of their owners and tenants. With a crowbar perpetrators balanced the balcony door off its hinges. On bright days. As so often. Professional thieves come prefer at dusk or even on the day when the residents are at work, so there is no one who bothers. And when the raid succeeds, come the perpetrators, often organized in gangs, only too happy to return to the scene of success.
Author: John Ritter, correspondent for politics and the economy in Switzerland
That’s why the corporal Cadalbert and his younger colleague Duke stripes on this autumn afternoon by Hirslanden. There is quiet, hardly a soul to be seen. But with their expert views, take the Zurich city police perceive things that would fall also burglars eye. On the first floor of a house, the balcony door is open. Before the same underlying garage roof is a car that could be used as a sporty stairs thief to penetrate instantaneously into the room and after money and jewelry to look even at the risk of being caught by the residents. But until they have recovered from the shock, the intruder would again over the hills.
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The police survey the parked cars: most cars of the upper class with Zurich license plates. That fits. But then they discover an older, mouse-gray medium-sized car with a German license plate. This aroused their suspicions. You pattern the interior – and discover the residents parking permit. Relaxation. Had the same place a van standing with Romanian flag, the reaction would have been different. Most gangs of thieves who wreak havoc in Germany, France and even Switzerland, also, still come from Eastern Europe.
A young man comes to meet the police. Sports jacket, krumpliger collar, black jeans – something too sloppy for this area. Duke speaks to him: “Where do you come straight from? ? Do you live here “The man pointing at a house nearby and responds to Swiss German:” I’m working over there, an advertising agency “That’s believable.. Stage two, the identity check is not necessary. “Have a nice day!”
This afternoon the armed law enforcement officers a criminal goes into the net. They had certainly not expected. Much more striking than in the patrol car and in blue uniform can hardly be on the road. “When people see us suspicious, they leave the quarters,” the corporal said, overlooking the deterrence strategy that lies behind the patrol use.
your concrete of use, the two police officers themselves have chosen. They were able to choose from various proposals that had worked out with the help of a German software called “Precobs” the computer. Precobs (“pre Crime Observation System”) is a program for predicting declines. This is reminiscent of “Minority Report”, the film starring Tom Cruise, in the “Precogs” murders foresee that were not yet committed.
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