Gutted to hear this mate. I guess if the guys are regular thieves they'll have their fingerprints on the database. So I hope you insisted on getting EVERYTHING dusted for prints!
I guess it's too late now, but I'd also insist on the coppers searching the smackheads house.
I'd also move! No matter how nice the area is, it's not worth risking them robbing your house when the little ones are asleep one day.
I used to live in a rough street in stoke and everybody in the street got their houses robbed at least once every two years, apart from the smackheads over the road that is. Funny that. Copper never did anything, and whoever does it, had the cheek to use taxpayers money to fund them going on 3 week barge holidays every year in the summer and so on. They should lock them up and let them turkey until every time they rob for something to feed their addiction.
Sorry if that offends anybody. But it's just the way I see it.
Needless to say my parents (it was when I was young) moved before we got our house robbed.
If I caught anybody taking anything from inside my home, I'd be quite happy to serve time knowing they couldn't eat food without blending it. Outside the home I think I'd just aim to knee cap the buggers and wait for the police to catch them crawling up the road. Unless they touched the porka in which case the above applies.