A FAMILY who installed a high-tech CCTV system at their home were stunned to find footage of a thief spending eight minutes stealing items from a car parked on their driveway.
The Millward family, who live in Taunton Close, Alvaston, were victims of the raid in the early hours of last Monday.
They said the footage shows a man getting inside Simon Millward's BMW vehicle, which was parked on the drive, at about 4am.
Simon, 24, said it was on his way to work later that morning when he realised his iPod was missing.
He said: "I noticed it was not there but I thought I had probably left it inside.
"I drove to work and thought about it all day. I looked in my glove box and it wasn't there.
"My watch had also gone from the centre console."
Simon said he returned home on his lunch break and viewed the CCTV footage, which showed a man trying to open car doors.
"You see him trying my Dad's car but couldn't get in," he said.
"Unfortunately, the night before I was doing some work on the fencing and completely forgot to lock my car and set the alarm."
Simon said the footage showed the man go into his car and search it for around eight minutes.
Simon, who works as a technician at Mercedes, at the Pentagon Island, said he was now having a new alarm system fitted to his car.
"It was my fault for leaving my car unlocked but, at the end of the day, we did not used to have this problem, it's only just recently."
The family had CCTV installed outside their home following a break-in last September.
Simon said: "My dad fell asleep and a man came into the house. He stood over him to get his laptop and my dad woke up and scared him off."
The Derby Telegraph previously reported how three weeks ago pensioners Mick and Catherine Fletcher caught an intruder snooping around a house in Alvaston.
Since the incident, a neighbour in Glastonbury Road, has had four bikes stolen from a garage.
Simon said the family would be tightening their security at home. He said: "The crime rate has gone through the roof in Alvaston.
"My dad works away in the US a lot and mum works early mornings about 4am and she is scared to death of going outside because she goes out at that time in the morning."
He said the family prepared a copy of the CCTV footage for police, but it was not collected until yesterday.
Detective Inspector Malcolm Bibbings said: "I have been made aware of this incident, whereby an officer has requested a copy of the CCTV and that the CCTV had not been picked up.
"The CCTV has now been recovered by detectives from the volume crime unit at Cotton Lane police station.
"There was a delay in collecting the footage, which is one part of our ongoing investigation into this crime.
"The footage has since been viewed and the identify of the offender is unknown.
"The investigation into this crime is still continuing and we are keeping an open mind as to whether or not it is linked to other, similar crimes in the immediate area.
"I would appeal to members of the public to help us identify those captured on the CCTV by calling Derbyshire Constabulary on 101 or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111."
