visakhapatnam not many residents of visakhapatnam have expressed interest in the city polices locked house monitoring system lhms mobile application the application was launched around two years ago by the visakhapatnam police to prevent burglaries in locked homes by installing cctv cameras incidents of burglaries usually rise during summer holidays as people are often away on vacations over 1000 burglaries were reported in visakhapatnam over the last three years 20162018 over 40 of these burglaries were reported during the summer and sankranti vacations when residents were not at home said a senior police officer with crime wing of the visakhapatnam police commissionerate incidents of burglaries have already gone up this year additional deputy commissioner of police crimes v suresh babu said we have over 75 advanced cctv cameras and few more cameras in reserve to install in locked houses in the city however only 8 to 10 people approach the police through the lhms app on a daily basis many people who are going on summer vacation are not using the app sources in the police department said that among the 75000 people who have downloaded the app only 2500 people have used it on the other hand thieves are targeting locked houses and stealing gold and silver ornaments cash and other valuables the police sources added the lhms app can be downloaded from google play store after downloading the app one can inform the police about their date of travel and return the registration must take place a day before residents leave their homes to ensure that the police can install surveillance cameras which will be monitored by the police control room according to a senior police officer burglars have not yet attempted to loot locked houses where the police had installed cctv cameras there is need to increase police patrolling at night to prevent property offences in the citys outskirts said gopi krishna a resident of madhurawada