British Police have identified that most robberies for gold were occurring near Indian habitats and hence issued a set of advices to prevent crime.

Gold from the homes of people hailing from Indian subcontinent has been the main target of the miscreants in Britain. Numerous cases have come up in London, Reading, Leicester and Birmingham. The British police have taken a serious note of these repeated incidents and issued specific crime prevention advice asking members of the community not to keep gold items at home. Most robberies have been reported in the above parts of Britain, where there is a high concentration of the Asian community that traditionally saves and stores gold in their houses.

Steve Smith, of the Thames Valley Police force, said: "Ideally, we would prefer for people not to keep high value gold at home given what we are experiencing, not only in areas of our force but nationally, due to the value of Asian gold and its purity". He added: "However, we understand that it may not always be possible to deposit it in banks or that some families may not wish to leave their valuables in someone else's possession.”In such circumstances therefore, we are strongly advising people to invest in a safe, which must comply with certain standards and be approved by your home-insurer. Without this, you may lose out on thousands of pounds if you are burgled".

The police issued detailed guidelines to the community to prevent crime, include details of safes, insurance, keeping an inventory of jewellery owned, to keep photographs of the items, and to use forensic marking to identify jewellery. Burglary for gold was considered a "significant" line of inquiry in the investigation into the double murders of Avtar Singh Kolar and Carole Kolar in Birmingham, but it has now been ruled out by detectives.