The costs of insecurity. Cna report
What emerges from a Cna study
The confinement and fear of Covid have checked the thief. But the summer of 2022 in many ways, especially on the holiday front, is reminiscent of the pre-pandemic of 2019. Including home burglaries? Maybe. But if the forecasts on the tourist movement announcing a boom in holidaymakers in August and the first part of September are confirmed, as everything seems, the risk exists.
Almost 500 per day, over 20 per hour
The reports of home theft in 2021 (provisional data from Istat) exceeded 182 thousand. That is to say almost 500 a day, more than twenty an hour, one every three minutes or so.
A widespread crime: 7.1 hits per thousand families with peaks of 8.4 thefts in the North and 7.8 in the Center; the South (4.9) and the major islands (3.7) are below the average.
This is without counting the universe below the waterline of those who prefer not to report the crime for fear of retaliation or for the disillusionment with the possibility of identifying the culprits, attitudes that would further increase the numbers of the crime and justify the growing feeling of a greater danger than what emerges from the official numbers.
In fact, these hateful crimes, which disturb the intimacy of families and in many cases also result in acts of violence, are still too many. And if the greater merit of the reduction of crimes reported in the last decade goes undoubtedly to the Police, a very strong deterrent action has been implemented by the citizens. In fact, many Italian families have invested resources to reduce the risk of unwanted and potentially dangerous intrusions for their own safety.
Careful but not too much
The need to feel safe in their own home is pushing adult Italians to adopt home security and defense systems. Two out of three families have had an armored door installed at the entrance to the house, a third have an alarm system, just under a third have iron bars on doors and windows, three out of ten video cameras.
From these data it emerges, however, CNA notes, that there are still many families who do not protect themselves. Not to mention the families who do not adapt their systems, unlike the criminals who follow the evolution of technology step by step.
But how to avoid bad surprises? First of all considering that safety is never superfluous. And that the expense, in these cases, is certainly worth the company. All the more so in a period like this which guarantees support to families also in terms of defenses from malicious people.
It is essential that all safety work is entrusted to specialized personnel, who use high quality and technologically updated products. Never before on this front, do-it-yourself is definitely inadvisable. Furthermore, if you suffer a theft and the system has been installed by unqualified personnel, the insurance will not recognize the compensation. The reference technical legislation provides for specific analysis practices upstream, both of the context that surrounds the building and of the nature of the building and the assets contained, before evaluating the type of system to be proposed and built in accordance with the law.
Going into the details of the work, it should be borne in mind that the simple signaling of the intrusion (the classic acoustic alarm, for example) is now of little use in the face of a more arrogant crime than in the past, which on the one hand is also satisfied with small loot , put together in a few minutes, on the other hand does not hesitate to commit violent acts.
The cost of security
The cheapest solution to defend your home is represented by the gratings: for a fixed iron grating of medium size, the cost is around 500 euros. The installation of an armored door costs on average 1,500 / 1,700 euros. Relying on more sophisticated solutions – notes CNA Installation Plants – is necessarily more onerous. An anti-intrusion security system ranges from 1,800 to 4 thousand euros. The integration of the video surveillance system fluctuates between one thousand and two thousand euros.
The tax opportunity
As part of the tax incentives made available to those who renovate their property – underlines CNA Installation Impianti – safety costs are also included. Specifically, the part defined as the "safety bonus" includes all the restructuring interventions that concern the defense of the property, both owned and rented, including common parts of the building. For the purchase of anti-theft systems by 31 December, personal income tax deductions are foreseen, spread over ten years, equal to 50 percent of the costs incurred.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/i-costi-insicurezza-report-cna/ on Wed, 10 Aug 2022 09:50:29 +0000.