INC NEWS - Home Safety Tips

[John Dagenhart]

The following is a set of security suggestions I have received from a
neighbor. I'm sending it on. Happy holidays.
 

Home Safety Tips

 

Checklist  For Making Your Home Safe 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: Hollies, Barberries, Mahonia;) 
 
*         Inquire with the 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
neighborhoods' prevention efforts.
 
*	Get a dog or a fake dog.   (A device may be placed at windows that
barks when it senses motion.)
 

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." The same goes for automated emails saying you're out of town.
*	Leave your car(s,) in it's/their usual position or have a neighbor
park in your driveway or in front of your home;
*         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.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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