The Mumbai police have time and again warned citizens to get the police verification of their domestic help done, but most continue to hire them without doing so. Recent crimes in houses at Khar and Versova have proved that citizens will only benefit by getting their domestic help verified. The employers in these cases had failed to do so. 

The police said the modus operandi involves getting hired as a caretaker, or cook, houseboy, housemaid and ayah and they also stay at the employer’s residence. The police found that the criminals even worked honestly while planning thefts. Working and staying at their employers’ houses makes it easy for them to note the habits of people, where they keep money and valuables in the house and also their timings of going to school, work, etc. The police said the criminals win the trust of their employers by even working for 2-3 years for them. But on getting the first opportunity, they steal and flee with the loot to their native places.