What are the basic personal safety rules when travelling or at home?

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Home Security

= Basic home security tips =

Home security means security of human beings and house hold items including valuable articles. The burglars and intruders apply many tricks for intrusion in the house. Mostly these intruders make intrusion during night and in off hours of the day that is in the noon. Electronic devices like security systems, alarms, cctv cameras etc. are used for security measures. A house owner should also think about some additional protective measures that can be easily implemented by making some additions or alterations to the house and by keeping watch in surrounding area of the house.

Let us talk about protective measures to be adopted by making some changes to enhance security of the house. The following are some approaches of defensive measures. * Provide hidden locks at the gate of house

Generally we provide pad lock at the door for safety but now a day pad lock works as a signal to the intruder indicating that house owner is away. The burglars/intruders make their planning to break in the house if they see a pad lock for a few days. To avoid this, good quality hidden locks should be provided at main gate and even at internal gates too. Hidden locks are harder to break as compared to pad locks. Read Complete article and advanced tips in suggested links below:

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The main points to look after are: * Access to you (doors, windows)

* Exposure (where, when and with whom to walk or share space)

* Dangers prevention

* Values protection The main basic rules are: * Doors and windows must have locks and keys must be available only to people of your trust. At night or in areas of criminality, all windows and doors must be kept locked. Do not leave spare keys around, you can always leave a spare key with a family member or a trusted neighbor. In hotels keep a key at all times so the personnel has no way to know when you might be in. If you live alone or stay alone in a hotel, leave your television set and some lights on when you go out.

* Keep trusted company, number is the best deterrent to criminals. When you are alone keep in areas with people in sight. If you enjoy to be alone, stay in open areas where you can see anyone approaching. Do not accept strangers invitations or services if you are alone, if you decide to anyway accept an stranger's approach, spend at least the first hours in public places and use the time to become acquainted with personal details of the person. Always approach your car with full awareness of who is nearby and look inside before opening the door.

* Avoid any device in your home or room which has open flames and if you have one get used to double check it on a daily basis. Also have a secondary exit in mind for emergency cases. Keep in the speed dial of your phone the firemen, police and ambulance numbers as well as a neighbor's phone number.

* Avoid to keep values in your house or room and avoid to comment to strangers or in public places about when you receive money or about expensive devices you have purchased. When traveling remember that your passport has good value in the black market of any country, don't leave it at the reception of hotels or any other place. Carry with you a certified copy of our passport and provide that when requested. Keep your passport and values in a body pouch not in a shoulder bag or similar. There is no need to keep a paranoia or permanent worry, if it is true that there are many criminals, it is also true that it is not likely that you may be targeted if you have not made a mistake that left you exposed, the world is still yours to enjoy. These are few basic rules easy to remember, if you get used to keep these rules you will not need to worry so much about becoming a target, criminals look for the easy victim and for who make mistakes or who is at the wrong place. Keep safe!

A home invasion is basically a robbery that occurs when you and your family are at home. Since the majority of people do not arm their alarm systems when they are active in their homes, thieves or assailants know that they can take as much time as they want once they have broken into your home. Less than three Kicks and one minute is all it takes to break through the average residential door secured with a deadbolt. That is why thieves kick in doors to gain entry in more than 50% of all home burglaries. Home invasion is frightening when you consider that your family (as well as your possessions) is the target. More frightening still is the fact that occurrences of home invasions are on the rise. The FBI says every 12 seconds a home is invaded by going right through the front or back door. In 2005, law enforcement agencies reported an estimated 2,154,126 burglary offenses a 0.5-percent increase compared with 2004 data. Burglary accounted for 21.2 percent of the estimated number of property crimes committed in 2005. Of all burglary offenses in 2005, 65.8 percent were residential structures. Most (62.4 percent) of residential burglaries in 2005 for which time of occurrence was known took place during the day, between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Information Sources: FBI Uniform Crime Report, Bureau of Justice Statistics and U.S. Department of Justice.

Many people believe that a home security system, with offsite monitoring, is all they need to keep their home secure.

An alarm system will not stop an intruder that has made the decision to enter your home. The national police response time for a home alarm is approximately twenty minutes…An experienced thief will be in and out of your home in three to five minutes.