Outside lighting: dusk-to-dawn or PIR?

[taz777]

What's the best mode of outside lighting for the purposes of keeping theives at bay? Dusk-to-dawn lighting or PIR? And would it be different depending on whether it was for the front garden or rear garden?

I was thinking of dusk-to-dawn for the front garden, PIR for the side alley and PIR for the rear garden (with manual override for the PIR).

 

[Europlex]

Lights DON'T keep them away.

The lights only help them to see better what they are doing.

Who is up all night, 365days watching & waiting for something to happen, no-one.

Lights are only good as an add-on to some sort of detection that alerts the property owner, who is then able to see what is going on to then make the relevant noises to the authorities, or not.

 

[bob-the-builder]