1 - Make sure doors are solid enough and can’t be easily kicked-in <br />2- Install a peephole in your front door <br />3- Replace glass panels on or around doors and accessible windows with laminated glass <br />4- Choose a secure handle set-lock for your doors <br />5- A Multi-point locking involves several hooks or bolts holding the door into the frame <br />6- Prevent easy access to the back and sides of your home by installing locked gates fencing or walls <br />7- Trim back any plants,Trees ...Make sure it’s easy for you to see people approaching your home so that a burglar can’t work without being seen <br />8- Make sure you lock all doors and shut all windows before leaving the house. It’s easy to forget when you’re in hurry, but it’s the simplest way for a burglar to enter your home <br />9- Don't make it easy on a burglar,Never leave keys anywhere near the front door,including your mailbox,planters,or under doormat <br />10- keep any tools such as ladders or items that may be used to break in, out of sight <br />11- Don’t leave your curtains closed during the daytime; Make sure your home looks occupied. <br />A home that looks empty is far more likely to be targeted by a burglar <br />12- Use automatic timer-switches to turn on a light when it goes dark <br />13- never indicate that you are not at home on your answering Machine message,just ask the caller to leave a message <br />14- Always make sure that you lock all doors and <br />windows and set your burglar alarm if you have one <br />15- Never leave notes on your door for delivery people <br />16- Do not put your name and residential address on <br />your key ring <br />17- When service or delivery people come to your <br />door, ask for ID <br />18- onsider having a dog that can scare a stranger away <br />19- Cut up cartons for TVs, computers, stereos, etc. <br />Tie the pieces together and put them in a bag so a burglar going through the garbage does not see any evidence of highly valuable household items <br />20- If you hear or see something suspicious call the police immediately
