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# Motorists in Burntwood urged not to make vehicles an easy target for opportunist thieves
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/motorists-in-burntwood-urged-not-to-make-vehicles-an-easy-target-for-opportunist-thieves/
- Published: 2021-02-09T15:21:12.000Z
- Updated: 2021-02-09T15:21:42.000Z
- Description: A reminder to ensure that you lock your vehicles and remove valuables from the sight of would be thieves.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: Burntwood, Crime, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 18:14, News

Police are warning motorists to ensure their cars and vans are not an easy target for thieves after two incidents in Burntwood.

![Staffordshire Police vehicle](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e3/90/e390c3da-0866-4d2a-8ffe-ca4999d7ce1c/content/images/lichfieldlive-co-uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/bmw-1-car-1.jpg)

Between 8am yesterday (8th February) and 6am this morning, items were stolen from vehicles parked on High Street in Chasetown.

PCSO Leon Worden said:

> “The vehicles were believed to have been unlocked and have been entered by an opportunist thief.  
>  
> “Items stolen include computer monitors, hair straighteners, CDs and DVDs.  
>  
> “A reminder to ensure that you lock your vehicles and remove valuables from the sight of would be thieves.”  
>  
> PCSO Leon Worden, Staffordshire Police

Anyone with information can call police on 101, quoting incident 0089 of 9th February.