[arooaroo]

My local Sainsbury’s supermarket used to have a cardboard cutout police officer in the window as a crime prevention tool.

I seem to recall it being fairly common at the time. Clearly we humans are easily nudged with these visual cues.

[buggeryorkshire]

They still do that at Morrisons, B&M and Home Bargains. Apparently it does work to deter theft to some degree.

[timeon]

> deter theft

and birds