- Make sure you have and USE insurance approved locks every time you go out and at night
- Hide keys away especially car keys as cars keys are common items to steal.
- If you have a porch, lock it.
- Keep side gates locked or get one installed
- Fit trellis to the tops of fences to make it harder to climb over.
- Grow thorny or prickly bushes to protect your perimeter.
- Have security lights fitted.
- Consider having an alarm fitted.
- Keep all out building,sheds and garages securely locked.Thieves love to find tools to use to break in with.
- Talk to your neighbours, get to know them.They will look out for your property if you go away and vice versa.
- Look at your property and work out how YOU would break in, then address how you would get in.
- Consider buying a home safe for your most valuable items and documents like passports and credit cards.
- Fit additional window locks
- Consider fitting a door chain and spy hole.
- If you have expensive cars or caravans it may be worth fitting parking posts or driveway gates.
- Mark your valuable iitems with your postcode.
- Take photos of your most valuable items and catalogue them in case they do get stolen.
- If you have a dog get it chipped as dogtheft is now common.
- if have a motor bike make sure it is secured to a ground anchor,many bikes are stolen by just lifting them up and putting them in a van.
- Consider installing cctv cameras
- Get to know your postman, they often know what is going on in your local neighbourhood and hear of burglaries etc.
- fit security gates and folding window gates or window bars if you live in a high crime area.
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