INC NEWS - Home Safety Everyday

[Laura Drey]

Feel free to share the information about Home Safety with your neighborhood
list serves, C.O.P., and other people you think maybe interested.  Laura

---------------- 

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;
 
* Take a SafeSkills workshop on personal safety course
           SafeSkills   493-7233 or 644-1335
           3710 Shannon Rd, Durham
           www.safeskills.com <http://www.safeskills.com>
          SafeSkills®, Inc. is committed to providing appropriate and
effective personal safety training and consulting services. SafeSkills®
offers a broad-based approach to personal safety which includes
psychological, verbal and physical self-protection skills.  SafeSkills® self
defense workshops introduce you to the concepts of handling threatening or
violent situations.  SafeSkills® instructors teach simple, easy to learn
strategies and techniques.
 
* 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
 
*  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
<http://www.ci.durham.nc.us/forms/works_trans_midblock_light.pdf>
 
* Become involved with the Citizens Observer Patrol (COP) program, if it is
in effect in your area.  The COP program provides a marked car to patrol
with flashing lights adding more eyes and visibility to the neighborhoods¹
prevention efforts.
 
* Plant thorny plants below windows (example of bushes: Flying Dragon,
Hollies, Barberries, Mahonia;)
 
* Get a dog or a fake dog.   (A device may be placed at windows that barks
when it senses motion.)


Laura Drey
Revised July, 2006

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.deltaforce.net/mailman/private/inc-list/attachments/20070524/ecc453a5/attachment-0001.htm