 | Organize a Neighborhood Watch program. Neighbors working together
make one of the best crime-fighting teams around. |
| Keep shrubbery trimmed. Tall, thick shrubbery provides cover for
burglars and lets them work undetected. |
| Keep the area around your house well lit. This will discourage
burglars. |
| Using an engraving pen, write your Driver's License number on your
personal property. |
| Make sure that the locks on your doors and windows are strong and secure,
and use them. Most burglars won't attempt to break a secured window
for fear of noise and the attention it would attract. |
| Make a home inventory list, complete with photos or video. Store
this list away from your home (Ask your insurance company if they provide an
Insurance and Household Inventory Record brochure, most insurance companies
have these. |
| Never leave a house key in such obvious places as a mailbox or under a
doormat. |
| Have a security plan for when you are on vacation. Ask a friend to
pick up mail, newspapers, etc. |
| Use automatic timers to turn on lights, radios and televisions. An
especially effective method is to have one timer turn off a bathroom light
as one timer turns on a bedroom light and vice versa, to give an impression
of movement within the house. Also, it's important to change the
sequence at least every two months. |
