Safety For You and Your Home

1. Safety For You and Your Home Community Education Specialist Mary Browning Naperville Police Department

2. Objectives • To learn techniques useful in keeping yourself and your property safe • Home Security

3. Who are Victims of Crime • Anybody • Anywhere • Any time • More crimes of violence occurred during daylight hours than between 6pm and 6am (DOJ, 1998)

4. Crime Statistics 2007 Naperville Personal • Murder, 2 • Sexual Assault, 16 • Battery, 76 • Robbery, 17 • Property • Theft, 2009 • Arson, 10 • Burglary, 250 • Motor Vehicle Theft, 76

5. Crime Prevention Triangle For a crime to occur there must be three elements present. Desire Ability Which one can we effect? Opportunity

6. Crime Prevention Triangle For a crime to occur there must be three elements present. Desire Ability Which one can we effect? Opportunity

7. Make Your Home A Lousy Target

8. Removing the Opportunity There are two types of barriers we can use to eliminate the opportunity to commit a crime: • Physical Barriers • Psychological Barriers

9. Removing The OpportunityPhysical Barriers • Locks • Doors • Windows • Fences • Chains • Alarm Systems • Dogs

10. Removing the Opportunity Psychological Barriers: • Alarm Systems • Dogs • Lights • Signs

11. Crime Prevention for the HomeRemoving the Opportunity # 1 Strategy criminals use to enter your home……….

12. Removing The OpportunityPhysical Barriers • Locks • Doors • Windows • Fences • Chains • Alarm Systems • Dogs

13. Statistics

14. Statistics • In a survey by the National Crime Prevention Council: 34% do not generally lock their car doors whether parked or moving • Between May 2008 and August 2008, there have been over 200 BMV’s in Naperville, over 80% of them were committed to cars that were unlocked

15. Removing the Opportunity LOCKS • Use them! • Install deadbolt locks-they can’t be “popped” like spring-latch locks can • Deadbolts should be at least 1 1/2” • Don’t forget the basement door or the door from the house to the garage

16. Removing the Opportunity LANDSCAPING • Don’t block entrances or create hiding places with your plants and/or bushes • Plant thorny or spiny bushes to discourage entry • Keep all landscaping well trimmed • Position trees so they don’t hide windows, walkways or doors • Consider gravel instead of mulch, it’s noisy • Don’t create roof access • No tree branches below 6 feet • Remove ladders when finished with them

17. Removing the Opportunity LIGHTS • Exterior lighting • Doors: house and garage • Entryways and ground-level windows • Out of reach so can’t be broken/unscrewed • Motion detectors • Photoelectric Lights • Interior lighting • Timers • Kitchen

18. Removing the Opportunity DOORS • Solid Core doors • 1 1/2 inch deadbolts • Front Door • Back Door • Access from Garage • Secure sliding glass doors with a broomstick or dowel in the track

19. Removing the “Window” of Opportunity WINDOWS • Use additional security on ground level windows • LOCK them • Use dowel rods, pins, or deadbolts (Cautions) • Keep trees and bushes trimmed back • Secure air conditioners with window brackets and screws

20. Removing the Opportunity HOUSE NUMBERS • At Least 5 inches High • Keep them Illuminated all Night • Display where they are most visible • Mailbox • Garage door • Front Door

21. Thank you!Stay Safe!