Home Safety Tips
Helpful Tips to Make Your Home Safer
- Lock doors at night and anytime your home is left unoccupied.
- All exterior doors should be solid core/steel and have deadbolt locks.
- Provide lighting in outside areas that might conceal prowlers.
- Trim shrubbery to prevent a break-in from going unnoticed.
- Provide a peephole in solid doors. Put one at child’s eye view too.
- Keep valuables in a safe deposit box.
- Provide window stops to restrict openings.
- Keep emergency numbers handy.
- Have mail and paper deliveries picked up by a trusted neighbor or Block Watch Captain during vacations and absences.
- Enlist the neighborhood to keep trash picked up.
- Make sure grass is mowed.
- Use light timers at all times, including times of absence.
- Be sure the garage is locked.
- Vacation plans should never be publicized or told to unknown persons.
- Do not leave notes on doors referring to planned return times.
- Do not leave suitcases where passersby can see that a departure is planned.
- Be sure to have a trusted neighbor check the house periodically.
- Engrave identification markings to all portable hard goods.
- Be sure to lock car doors and keep keys in possession of owner.
- Report suspicious person or vehicles to the authorities promptly.
- Request identification of unfamiliar meter readers, etc.
- Do not automatically open a door when the doorbell rings.
- If you have an alarm system, use it often, even when you are home.
- Report all crime or attempted crime promptly.
- Join Neighborhood Watch