The Essex Evening Gazette is celebrating the second birthday of its campaign on bogus callers.

Other people have also picked up on the idea since the If In Doubt, Keep ‘Em Out campaign was launched in April 2001, said Gazette editor Irene Kettle.

“We don’t mind that as our main aim is to get over the simple If In Doubt, Keep ‘Em Out message and to do out bit to make our community a safer place to live and work”.

The paper has published more than 300 stories about bogus callers, and has created thousands of two-part stickers to be placed both in and outside homes.

About 14,000 home-owners have the stickers on their doors, and Irene called the campaign a ‘huge success’.

Det Sgt Roger Napier, of Colchester police, said: “The Gazette campaign has educated people about this type of burglary and, I believe, helps to reduce the number of offences”.

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