INC NEWS - Safety Tips (w/ while out of town) to PACs

[Laura Drey]

I am passing along home and personal safety tips now because I wanted to
make people aware of some actions that may be taken that could help reduce
the possibility of becoming a victim of crime over summer vacations.

PLEASE RESPOND DIRECTLY TO THE CRIME PREVENTION OFFICER FOR YOUR NEIBORHOOD
(see below.)  

Please forward this email to your PAC,* neighborhood list serves, community
and religious organizations, family, friends and co-workers.
  
Let me know if you have additional suggestions regarding home and personal
safety tips (as well as programs).  Thanks.

Laura Drey

*It appears that to send information to a PAC one must be a member.   Could
one of you who is a member of each PAC forward this message?  The addresses
are:   
<pac4 at yahoogroups.com>, <pac1 at yahoogroups.com>, <pac5 at yahoogroups.com>,
<pac2 at yahoogroups.com>, <pac3 at yahoogroups.com>

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Home Safety Tips
 
Checklist for Making Your Home Safer Everyday
 
Have a security survey done of your home through your neighborhood police
substation 
 
Get to know your neighbors and join your neighbor watch
 
Watch to see who is unfamiliar, get their license # if possible, report
suspicious activities to the police by calling 911
 
Install motion detector lights
 
Run a radio loud enough to be heard upon entering the home
 
Use double cylinder dead bolt locks with extra long screws in the strike
plates 
 
Permanently mark valuables with an engraver and can get window sticker from
the police station to indicate this action has been done
 
Keep garage doors and storage buildings locked
 
Trim bushes below the window sills and plant thorny plants below your
windows (example of bushes: Flying Dragon, Hollies, Barberries, Mahonia)

Inquire with the Durham Police Department about personal safety classes
which includes home safety, travel safety and safety while shopping

Petition the city for street light(s) if your street is dark.
www.ci.durham.nc.us/forms/works_trans_midblock_light.pdf
 
Become involved with the Citizens Observer Patrol (C.O.P.) program, if it is
in effect in your area.  The C.O.P. program provides a  marked car to patrol
with flashing lights adding more eyes and visibility  to the neighborhoods¹
prevention efforts 
 
Get a dog or a fake dog.   (A device may be placed at  windows that barks
when it senses motion.)

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Home Safety Tips
 
Checklist For Going Out-of-Town
 
 
Leave a light on somewhere in the house, preferably on a timer

Have someone move your garbage can, yard waste cans, and recycling bin back
into place
 
Have someone pick up your mail, packages, & newspapers (even if you have
requested your mail and paper be held)
 
Run a radio loud enough to be heard upon entering the home
 
Let your neighbors know the dates you will be away
 
Check your motion detector lights to make sure they are working before leave
 
Never have a recording on your answering machine that tells the caller that
you are away from home. An alternative is: "I'm not available now."
 
Leave your, or a neighbors car(s,) in it¹s/their usual position
 
If away for an extended period of time have someone take care of your yard.

Request that the C.O.P. (Citizen Observer Patrol, a community policing
program sponsored by the Durham Police Dept.) check your house while you are
away. C.O.P. will also check on the elderly or infirm while patrolling your
neighborhood. Call the Crime Prevention Officer at your police substation to
set up a house check.
 

Compiled by Laura Drey
Updated May 2005



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