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Hello All Is your home secure?
Make your home a difficult target.
Inside your home
❙ Make it difficult for your valuables to be taken.
❙ Check who’s at the door and don’t open it if you feel anxious.
❙ Leave some lights on or consider using plug timers if it will be dark before you get home.
❙ Store keys, including your car keys, out of sight and away from the front door area.
❙ Hide wallets, identity cards, passports and cash.
❙ Mark or etch your property with your postcode, house, flat number or the first three letters of your house name.
Outside your home
❙ Install good outside lighting.
❙ Scale back hedges or fences that prevent people seeing your home.
❙ Lock doors and windows every time you leave the house, even when you are in the garden.
❙ Cancel milk or other deliveries if you are planning on being away from home.
❙ Ask a neighbour, friend or relative to keep an eye on your property if you are going away.
❙ Keep ladders and gardening tools locked away to prevent them being used to gain entry to your home.
❙ Secure bikes by locking them to an immoveable object inside a locked shed or garage. Install a burglar alarm that can be seen on the outside of your property.
On your street
❙ Be a good neighbour and check on your neighbours’ properties if they are away.
❙ Remove any letters or deliveries from the letterbox or doorway.
❙ Clear snow to your neighbours’ doors, or walk on their paths if they are away - footprints will make the house appear occupied.
❙ Burglars look for the best house to target, so report anyone acting suspiciously.
❙ Consider setting up or joining a Neighbourhood Watch scheme.
❙ Take photographs of your valuable items such as jewellery.
❙ Register items with serial numbers such as mobile phones, games consoles, bikes and watches at: https://orlo.uk/ZoIv6
For more information please contact your local Safer Neighbourhood Team
or visit: https://orlo.uk/FJr79
#SaferStreetsDerbsyhire #Isyourhomesecure Thanks, PCSO Kirsty Hunt | 
