to study this threat to boost our intelligence across regions and shape up our technical ability this is also pertinent to domestic crime of course which is linked in many instances to the transnational organised crime syndicates i_letter have been referring to perhaps the one crime that makes us all feel under siege is house robbery there has been a one hundred percent increase in house robberies over the last five years and these crimes are committed by to quote professor rudolph zinn the most callous of criminals last year there were eighteen thousand residential robberies up from just nine thousand in two thousand three