Your Home:
- Prune lower limbs and bushes away from your home, windows and doors, as this gives burglars a place to hide.
- Privacy fences shield burglars from sight.
- Keep tools and ladders locked up.
- Porches and entrances should be well lit.
- Keep your doors and windows locked, in other words avoid raking the back yard and leaving your front door or garage door open.
- Don’t let strangers into your home to use the phone or any other reason.
- If going on vacation always make sure all doors and windows are locked, have a neighbor keep an eye out for any suspicious activity, don’t hide keys anywhere outside, leave your shades and blinds in normal position, put important papers, cash, and expensive jewelry in a safe deposit box, stop your mail and newspaper if away for an extended period of time or have a neighbor pick them up for you, use timers to turn on lights automatically, disable garage door openers, do not have work associates divulge to callers of your vacation.
- If you smoke, make sure all butts are completely out before leaving unattended.
- Same goes for fire places; do not leave a fire in fireplace unattended and when you clean out the ashes, put them outside away from any combustible materials and soak them down with water.
- Don’t overload your electrical circuits.
- Keep matches and lighters away from children.
- Replace batteries in smoke detectors.
- Do an inventory and keep a written record or video tape of all valuables with serial numbers.
- Consider having a security system with smoke detectors installed in your home, unless you already have one. Make sure it is a monitored alarm to notify police and fire departments.
Stores and Parking Lots:
- Don’t leave children unattended.
- Don’t leave your purse in the cart, keep it on your shoulder or better yet in the trunk of your car.
- Lock doors and make sure windows are all the way up.
- Don’t leave pets in vehicles.
- Put packages in trunk of vehicle to keep them out of sight.
Steve Rogers, a native of Fayetteville, NC and is a husband and father of four who knows the benefit of safety and security around his home. Steve offers free presentations on security issues to community watch groups, church groups and local organizations.
Contact Steve today for more information or to schedule a presentation.
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