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What a Thief Looks for when He Wants to Rob Your Home
Published: Thu August 5th, 2010
By: Jaime A. Heidel
Category: People
Thieves are on the lookout for homes that make an easy target. Find out what a thief looks for when he wants to rob your home & how to hide it.
What A Thief Looks For
If you're away from home, a thief may simply look up your number in the phone book and call at all hours. If he receives no response for a couple of days your home may start to look good to him.
How To Hide It
Whether you're on a weekend getaway or a two-week vacation, forward calls from the landline to your cell phone. That way, if a potential thief calls, you may be poolside a thousand miles from home but according to him, you're "there" to answer.
What A Thief Looks For
Nothing says, "come on in, nobody's home" to a thief like magazines and bills falling out of the mailbox and newspapers piling up on the lawn.
How To Hide It
Go to the post office and have them hold mail for the length of time you plan to be away. Call the newspaper you subscribe to and let them know to halt delivery until you return.
What A Thief Looks For
The lights are off and nobody's home.
How To Hide It
Pick up an inexpensive timer system for indoor & outdoor lights. This way, you can set them to switch on and off according to your usual schedule creating the illusion somebody is at home.
What A Thief Looks For
The "hidden" key you keep under your doormat.
How To Hide It
Everybody's locked themselves out of the house once or twice. Instead of hiding a spare key to your front door right next to your front door, keep a spare in your car. You can also give the spare to a trusted neighbor who can keep it indoors with them until it's needed.
What A Thief Looks For
The ladder against the side of the house leftover from Sunday's chores.
How To Hide It
It's easy to forget to put tools such as ladders and hedge trimmers away but look at it from a the perspective of a thief; that ladder could be used to gain entry and the hedge trimmers could be used as a weapon. For safety's sake, it is important to put all tools in a locked tool shed when not in use.
What A Thief Looks For
The tall bush that completely hides the unlocked window to a state-of-the-art home office.
How To Hide It
Trimming bushes and hedges around windows is a good way to make a thief think twice about trying to break in unnoticed. Keep windows on the ground floor locked when nobody is at home. Take care not to accidentally advertise a valuable computer or home theatre system by keeping curtains closed or assuring valuable items are not visible from the street or lawn.
What A Thief Looks For
Indication that your home is protected by a security system.
What You Can Do To Make Him Believe It
Even if you don't have an alarm system, you can deter a thief by placing realistic-looking "protected by security system" decals on your windows and doors. What he doesn't know will protect you.
There you have it. What a thief looks for when he wants to rob your home and how to hide it.
Published: Thu August 5th, 2010
By: Jaime A. Heidel
Category: People
Thieves are on the lookout for homes that make an easy target. Find out what a thief looks for when he wants to rob your home & how to hide it.
What A Thief Looks For
If you're away from home, a thief may simply look up your number in the phone book and call at all hours. If he receives no response for a couple of days your home may start to look good to him.
How To Hide It
Whether you're on a weekend getaway or a two-week vacation, forward calls from the landline to your cell phone. That way, if a potential thief calls, you may be poolside a thousand miles from home but according to him, you're "there" to answer.
What A Thief Looks For
Nothing says, "come on in, nobody's home" to a thief like magazines and bills falling out of the mailbox and newspapers piling up on the lawn.
How To Hide It
Go to the post office and have them hold mail for the length of time you plan to be away. Call the newspaper you subscribe to and let them know to halt delivery until you return.
What A Thief Looks For
The lights are off and nobody's home.
How To Hide It
Pick up an inexpensive timer system for indoor & outdoor lights. This way, you can set them to switch on and off according to your usual schedule creating the illusion somebody is at home.
What A Thief Looks For
The "hidden" key you keep under your doormat.
How To Hide It
Everybody's locked themselves out of the house once or twice. Instead of hiding a spare key to your front door right next to your front door, keep a spare in your car. You can also give the spare to a trusted neighbor who can keep it indoors with them until it's needed.
What A Thief Looks For
The ladder against the side of the house leftover from Sunday's chores.
How To Hide It
It's easy to forget to put tools such as ladders and hedge trimmers away but look at it from a the perspective of a thief; that ladder could be used to gain entry and the hedge trimmers could be used as a weapon. For safety's sake, it is important to put all tools in a locked tool shed when not in use.
What A Thief Looks For
The tall bush that completely hides the unlocked window to a state-of-the-art home office.
How To Hide It
Trimming bushes and hedges around windows is a good way to make a thief think twice about trying to break in unnoticed. Keep windows on the ground floor locked when nobody is at home. Take care not to accidentally advertise a valuable computer or home theatre system by keeping curtains closed or assuring valuable items are not visible from the street or lawn.
What A Thief Looks For
Indication that your home is protected by a security system.
What You Can Do To Make Him Believe It
Even if you don't have an alarm system, you can deter a thief by placing realistic-looking "protected by security system" decals on your windows and doors. What he doesn't know will protect you.
There you have it. What a thief looks for when he wants to rob your home and how to hide it.
Tips from Times by Police to Kevin P. O'Connor 08/11/2004
PAWTUCKET -- This monthÂÂÂÂ?’s crime-fighting tip was abundantly clear when police brass sat down last week:
More locked doors and secured windows would do a lot to drop the cityÂÂÂÂ?’s crime rate.
Police brass meet once a month to go over all of the cityÂÂÂÂ?’s reported crime for the previous four weeks. They look at the underlying similarities with every housebreak, stolen car, milk store robbery and purse snatch and also graph every crime on a city map, looking for the best ways to respond.
JulyÂÂÂÂ?’s crimes showed one clear trend, according to Detective Lt. John Clarkson, a member of the departmentÂÂÂÂ?’s ComStat (computer statistics) team.
"A lot of our housebreaks were into homes where people have left their windows open or their doors unlocked," Clarkson said. "People are leaving thieves with easy access.
"We are also seeing a lot of bikes being taken. In almost every case, the bikes were unlocked."
Given that, police are starting a campaign to remind people to keep their valuables and their homes out of the reach of thieves.
Officers on the police Bike Squad have been asked to spread the word when they make their way through the city. The Community Police Unit and the cityÂÂÂÂ?’s neighborhood crime watch groups are also getting into the act, preaching the gospel of prevention.
Doors should be locked, even if you are leaving your home for just a few minutes, Clarkson said.
"We also suggest people do something to make it difficult to get into their homes through a window," Clarkson said.
"There are blocks you can buy to keep a window from opening more than 8 or 9 inches. With sliding windows, sometimes a piece of wood will keep it from openning."
The police are willing to do more than just preach, Clarkson added.
"If anyone wants help with this, they can call the station," he said. Sgt. Edmund St. Pierre has been trained to help homeowners quickly and easily secure their home. He can give advise or do a home safety inspection, if necessary, Clarkson said.
The Community Police Unit officers are also available to help city residents with tightening up their homes.
"It is also a big help when people call us if they see anything that they think is suspicious or unusual," Clarkson said. Police have made several arrests this year that started with city residents calling for help when they saw strangers in a neighborÂÂÂÂ?’s yard.
"If someone sees a juvenile riding one bike and holding onto another, they should call," Clarkson said. "That is frequently someone taking off with a stolen bike."
For more information, or to report suspicious activity, call the police at 727-9100.
©The Pawtucket Times 2004
Pawtucket population for the 2010 Census is 71,148 a loss of 1,810 over the last 10 years.
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