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Protecting your valuables from the unsavoury arms
of bandits starts from the outside in. Here are a few suggestions that
may assist you in making your home less appealing to the darker side
of society.
Since most break-ins are crimes of opportunity,
following are some helpful tips on how to decrease the perception of
opportunity:
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Ensure your yard is well lit and
keep Shrubberies around windows and other potential entry points
trimmed. Crooks are less likely to attempt to break in if there is
a high risk of being seen.
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When on vacation, have a neighbour
or friend pick up your mail, leave a few lights in your home on
timers, and if possible have someone come in occasionally to make
your home look ?alive?. If possible, have someone park a vehicle
in your driveway for the time you are away. To reduce the risk of
being caught, most Burglars do stake out their targets. Make
everything as unpredictable as possible to potential intruders.
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Do not advertise the purchase of ?high
ticket? items by putting the boxes outside in open view.
Break the boxes down and bring them to the nearest neighbourhood
recycle bin.
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Keep ladders and garbage bins hidden
as they provide burglars with easy access to higher windows.
You should also look around your home, from the
outside and closely examine the possible ways an intruder could
infiltrate your home and consider ways to make forced entry as
difficult as possible.
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Check to see whether your windows or sliding
doors can be removed from the outside. Some older style
aluminum frame windows can be lifted out of their frames while the
window is still closed. Later models included a security feature
that prevented the window from being lifted out unless it was
open. Screws placed in the window frame, above the window are an
inexpensive way of accomplishing this.
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Ensure that your windows and sliding doors
cannot be forced open. Many factory standard latches fall
short of effectively preventing forced entry.
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Install dead bolts in all your
external doors.
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Consider small windows inside or
beside entry doors as an easy way to break in and unlock dead
bolts. Ensure dead bolts are out of reach from these windows.
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Strengthen doors and doorframes
around dead bolts.
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Install longer screws in door
hinges.
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If the hinges are on the outside of
the door, ensure they cannot be removed easily.
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Protect rarely used basement and back doors
from forced Entry by installing an anti-ramming bar across the
inside of the door.
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Consider security window film or
window bars on high-risk windows.
Look through the interior of your home and
consider possible entry points in relation to the location of your
valuables. Keep in mind, crooks
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Keep Computers stereo's and all
other ?high ticket? items away from windows that can be easily
accessed or viewed from outside the home.
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Keep all jewellery and money hidden,
wall and floor safes are ideal for this, mattresses and dresser
drawers are not.
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You may also wish to secure computers,
fax machines and printers to the floors or desks on which they are
placed.
- As you may have noticed with the above steps, each home,
regardless of size, has its own unique set of characteristics, which
need addressing, when protecting it from intruders. The same holds
true when installing a security system. For a free no-obligation
security evaluation of your home, please contact KeepSafe Systems at
(604) 874-8772. We service the entire Lower Mainland and Fraser
Valley.
The KeepSafe Systems service area
includes but is not limited to North Vancouver, West Vancouver,
Richmond, Delta, Tsawassen, Ladner, Surrey, Cloverdale, Abbotsford,
Mission, Aldergrove, Maple Ridge, Haney, Port Coquitlam, Coquitlam,
Port Moody, Burnaby, New Westminster, Kamloops, Kelowna, Courtney,
Comox, Nanaimo, Lions Bay, Squamish and pretty much everywhere in
between.
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