INC NEWS - Traveling? break in prevention

[Laura Drey]

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Fell free to send the information below to neighborhood list serves and
other people.

Laura


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 and an emergency phone
number;
 
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 car(s,) in it¹s/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.

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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;
 
Take a workshop on personal safety from SafeSkills
SafeSkills   493-7233 or 644-1335
3710 Shannon Rd, Durham
www.safeskills.com <http://www.safeskills.com>
SafeSkills® self defense workshops introduce you to the concepts of handling
threatening or violent situations. SafeSkills instructors
<http://www.safeskills.com/aboutss.html#instructors>  teach simple, easy to
learn strategies and techniques. People of all ages and abilties can learn
valuable skills in a SafeSkills® workshop.  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 instruction involves: examining your
options of if, when, and how to resist effectively;
understanding the ploys attackers use; using verbal assertiveness; safe,
hands-on practice with the physical skills of yelling, kicking, punching and
striking effectively.
 
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: Hollies, Barberries,
Mahonias and Flying Dragons.)
 
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

 

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