AIBU to be looking into lockable bedroom furniture? (second time we've been stolen from in 6 months; cleaner/nanny)

[Melanienm]

I'm feeling pretty gung-ho this morning (and extremely hacked off) as for the second time in 6 months we've been stolen from my someone we invited into our home... Came home last night and discovered that our lovely nanny's laptop was missing then on close inspection of our bedroom found that we're missing another MacBook pro, my husband's watches, his passport, some foreign currency (hardly anything - maybe $50USD and $50AUD), a few of my necklaces (nothing really expensive - but sentimental value and has upset me a lot)...
Unfortunately, the only thing we can think is that it was our cleaner who was in our home for 3 hours yesterday, although she's always seemed lovely and we pay her well and gave her a bonus at Christmas. But no forced entry, our dog home all day, what else could have happened?
This is on top of a nanny who I finally worked out was taking small things from our room 6 months ago and we let her go (really bizarrely she kept taking Chanel lipsticks one at a time, I had 6 as I like to treat myself on occasion with expensive make up) - I only cottoned when I replaced one and then 2 weeks later it was gone again and was down to 0 and realised I was missing other cosmetics, perfumes, etc. WHY???
Anyway... to cut my rant shorter... I'm now fantasising about lockable bedroom furniture. The insurance company won't cover us for contents as the cleaner was invited in and hubby's watches only insured when they're on his wrist or in the safe - same with MacBook. But how realistic is it to take every single thing of value downstairs and lock it in the safe every night and then get out again in the morning?
BUT, if we had a nice looking chest of drawers that could be locked we could do that.
Does anyone do this?
I can honestly say I'm not the most ahem organised with my personal belongings, all make up is in a drawer or on my dressing table, same with jewellery that I wear often.
I'm honestly wondering how others handle this?
Is there a spate of this kind of theft happening and I'm just really naiive?
thanks

It's an effect of the green eyed monster. Ignore them op.

Hope you get it all sorted out.

Lurking, I live in inner London
When leaving for work a few months ago, I noticed my car door was slightly open.
On closer inspection, someone had been in it overnights, opened the glove box and storage things.
Nothing was taken (because they were all empty) but I reported it to the police. They sent their forensics team out to fingerprint the car and photograph it
I'm sure there is plenty of crime around but that doesn't mean they don't take other things seriously!

I don't have a cleaner or a nanny but I still feel able to have sympathy for someone who has been robbed by someone they trusted. That could happen to anyone, we all have friends and family into our homes as well as other work people and delivery people etc. We should be able to trust people. The OP is not in the wrong here, it's whoever decided to take things that didn't belong to them simply because they had the opportunity. Someone chose to do that. They may have been desperate, but if it was the cleaner, they could have asked for extra hours or appealed to the OP for an advance etc.

Yy wankers (sorry for the shortening...) I am nowhere near affording a cleaner but can see it's a shitty thing to happen. My mum used to be a cleaner (and I've done the odd bit myself) and I can sympathise.

and also yes, the police do take these types of crime seriously as often its the antisocial stuff that destroys society as much as the bigger crime.

It is a shitty thing to happen. But being accused on the basis of no evidence other than the nanny seems too nice is a bit shitty.

Are the police going to search her house or anything?

I don't think it's the fact that the OP has money to buy expensive goods that has rankled.

It's the fact that she has assumed her cleaner has stolen from her and dismissed her without hearing her side of the story.

and also yes, the police do take these types of crime seriously as often its the antisocial stuff that destroys society as much as the bigger crime

Not when our garage was broken into. Nor when our office was broken into. Just got a crime number and that was that.

Lurking, they do round here, antisocial behaviour is top of the list of priorities. The police use Facebook a lot round here, the report all sorts of things looking for info and witnesses, things like your garage break in would be on there.

My friend has one of these lockable mirror

I would gst a lock your bedroom door. Admittedly the cleaner can't clean in there then, but for half an hour a week to change bed / hoover etc it would be worth it.

Http:offbeathome.com/locking-cabinets/

Love the mirror.

Something doesn't add up.
The OP says the police haven't interviewed the cleaner or the nanny yet but they can identify whose fingerprints are in the bedroom. Seems a bit odd they have both their fingerprints before interviewing either of them (and that all the stuff listed, two laptops etc fitted into one backpack).
I smell a story

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Hmm hadn't though of that traf

Haven't read through yet but did you change your locks after the old nanny left? Any chance she could have come back and taken more?

I want to clarify about my earlier post. I am a cleaner & no, I would not want to be filmed working as a cleaner . However, if I worked in a bank, nursery, shop etc it wouldn't bother me. Because everyone would be filmed/cctv'd. It's just the thought of a customer wanting to just check on me alone & film my every move (basically watching how you work) You can't see how a bank teller is working as they sit, but with cleaning it's different.

I did use to work for a large corporate company previously & much more enjoy working as a cleaner (self employed).

Hmmm does sound odd re fingerprints though traf.

any chance it could be your toddler/children? playing in your room/removing stuff and taking into their rooms/hiding round the house?

sadly blame always goes on the cleaner /nanny - yes sometimes they do steal but would be silly to cut off the hand that feeds them

Traf I also thought the bit about the police visit didn't add up.

Gosh, how awful, but it sounds like a "proper burglary" not a lightfingered cleaner!

When I did Home Care, some of the Families of Patients with Dementia had set up CCTV, which didn't bother us.

I've got wardrobes with circle handles, i put a thin bicycle lock through them, this is so my Granddaughter can't get into them. I keep my Meds and breakable stuff in there.

My drawers have the same handles, which cupboard childproof fasteners work on.

OP, there are some pretty unhelpful comments on here. Totally agree that you should be able to have your belongings, er, in your own home.

SuburbanRhonda you say it would be easier for OP to notice things are missing if she was tidier. Not particularly helpful when all of their belongings were taken in one fell swoop, is it?

Care homes are supposed to provide residents with at least one lockable drawer (often wont let them actually use it) so there are companies making lockable bedroom furniture. An instant simple system could be a pound land combination code luggage strap through handles, slightly less intrusive and possibly accusatory than a bicycle lock, when it's needed.

I'm not sure what you're describing is likely to be your cleaner. Some cleaners do steal, just as some of every kind of person do, but IME they're rarely that brazen and when they are, it tends to be cumulative theft as they discover things aren't missed, not a mass hit of things that are highly likely to result in police being called.

The people being crap about you having a cleaner or suggesting you should do it yourself, might like to think about where everyone who cleans for a living would be without employers prepared to have them in their homes.
Disability's taken me out but previously, being able to just go out and offer my services cleaning on top of other work, and guarantee to pick up some (also usually more flexible) extra work somewhere, has got me through some very difficult times, and seen my kids onto trips etc. Long live domestic employers.

You're not even going to talk to the cleaner?

Just get the police to tell her she's sacked?