Home robberies are rising in Industrial Jubail districts and burglars who are ostensibly arrested are apparently still on the run. In the past two years, Jubail dwellers had undergone a spate of home robberies that amounted to 250 incidents according to several local Arabic newspapers. Despite the public announcement from the local police authority in the area that burglars were captured and brought to justice, home burglaries are still on the rise, and there does not seem to be an indication to its end.

Just on the past weekend, a resident of the Al-Hijaz district, came home to find it completely plundered for the second time. “They used metal cutting tools to break open the metal bars that protect the windows, broke the main entrance door, and they stole an expensive LCD TV and a surround system worth more than 10.000 thousands Riyals among many other expensive electronics,” he said. His only little daughter was in terror and crying for her seven stolen canary birds. “A scene that made his tears start to shed,” the homeowner added. “The house was literally cleaned,” the homeowner stated. “A similar home burglary incident just occurred last week to a neighboring home,” according to a nearby neighbor.

This home burglary incident is not entirely new of its kind. Similar incidents occurred in the past year. Around 8 houses were broken into by unknown persons in the district of Al-Qudis, in which more than 75 thousand riyals between cash, jewelry and electronic devices, were looted. In addition, not so many years ago, five houses were also broken into in Al-Andalus district according to Aljazeera newspaper.

A number of homeowners who have been robbed were surprised to these successive unrelenting incidents in the area. Mubarak Al-Dossari whose house was robbed for the second time, attributed this to the lack of neighborhood police patrols. “What happened to him and to neighboring houses is due to the lack of patrols in residential areas which contributed to the persistence of the thieves as well as the unfound thieves and the stolen goods,” he said. Shaker Al-Saleem, whose house was raided for the second time this weekend, attributed the reason to “him being monitored by the burglars”.

These series of continuous raids on Jubail homes become a serious concern and are causing fear in the children and families of the citizens. Jubail inhabitants are calling upon the Minister of Interior, His Highness Prince Naif Bin Abdulaziz, to address the matter to the local authority so as to tighten the security measures and to increase a large number of the security patrols.