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Potential Danger in Your Home Environment

HOME SECURITY

Many crimes committed in the home could be avoided with proper precautions. You need to systematically check all potentially vulnerable areas of your home environment on a daily basis.

Most of us would like to think crime won’t happen to us. And, naturally, it is impossible to predict where and when a crime will occur. But there is much you and your family can do to create a safer home environment.

Coming home to find your house or apartment has been robbed is bad enough. Being there when someone is trying to rob it, or interfering, can be much worse.

The following safety tips will help you become more aware of and responsible about home security, and are practices you can teach your children.

LOCKS

It is practically impossible to prevent a criminal from entering your house through an outside door if the criminal has the determination, skills and the time to do so. Remember, a criminal wants to spend the least amount of time and effort in the illegal act as possible. Making it difficult for him to enter is often enough to deter him and send him on his way to an easier target. Sometimes all you need is the proper type of door and window locks.