Take precaution in your home

Housebreakings are an ongoing challenge residents are faced with on a daily basis. It is important to keep abreast with how to actively participate in ensuring your safety at home.

Spokesperson for Brixton Police Station, Jeanette Backhoff offered the following tips for residents:

• When you go away on holiday, cancel all magazine and newspaper deliveries
• Keep all your doors and security gates locked at all times
• Ensure that your house street number is clearly marked on your fence or wall in order for it to be easily identified in the case of an emergency
• Keep your garden well lit at night as well as trees and plants trimmed to eliminate any possible places
• Consider installing a burglar alarm, panic buttons, burglar bars, security gates, remote control gates and garage doors.
• Beware of neighbours’ dogs barking unusually late at night or early in the morning
• Keep cash valuables and firearms in safe boxes so that are securely bolted down
• Make it difficult for criminals to function in your area by reporting any suspicious persons or noises to the police immediately
• Never open the door to strangers and alert your family members or friends if you are sending someone unknown to their house
• Install timers which will automatically switch on and off in your house when you are not at home
• It is your right to see identification cards of callers who claim to be government, municipal officials or even police officers.

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