Scope was one of the weapons of choice back when I used to repair TVs, couldn't be done efficiently without one. The one we had in the shop was a clunky Radiospares one iirc.
Never used one as an alarm engineer although ADT had one in the stores.
I listened to Cressida Dick on LBC yesterday, don't be fooled by the wording 'Could' they have to investigate every complaint.
Personally I'd let the police reverse back over the little fuckers.