- Purchase an alarm system for your home or business and use it whenever you're away. It is also a good idea to have your home alarm activated while you're asleep.
- Install motion sensor lights at the front and rear of your home or business.
- Make sure you keep your doors and windows locked. Do not hide a key outside of your home, because criminals know all the places that you can think of to hide it.
- Install double keyed deadbolt locks on all exterior doors if there is a window within arms reach of the interior lock. Make sure you keep a key readily available near each door in the event of a fire.
- Make sure that you pick-up your mail and newspapers on a daily basis. If you're not going to be at home for a few days or longer, arrange to have someone you trust pick-up your mail and newspapers every day.
- Keep the shrubbery and trees located next to your windows cut down so that criminals will not have a place to hide while they are prying open your window.
- When you're going to be away from home on vacation put several interior lights on a timer, making sure you set them to go on and off at different times.
- Make sure your neighbors know to call the police immediately if they see any suspicious activity at your home.
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