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Prevent Home Invasions: How To Stop This Terrifying Crime From Happening To You

By: Sean O’Leary You’re sitting at home when you suddenly hear someone trying to open your front door. You jump up startled, when your side window breaks. You start to panic as someone begins to climb through your window. At the same time, your front door is kicked down. You have no where to go as you reach for the phone in a panic, desperately trying to call 911. Home invasions are terrifying and often deadly. Your home is supposed to be your sanctuary, so when someone violates that space it’s incredibly disturbing. Unfortunately, most home invasions aren’t just robberies. Armed criminals frequently terrorize, attack and even murder their victims once they get inside. Therefore, it’s crucial that you take steps to prevent home invasions. The number of home invasions in Canada increased by 38% between 1999 and 2005. Police reported approximately 2,700 home invasions nationwide in 2008. Many of these criminals were armed, often with knives and guns. A man was killed in a home invasion near Calgary, Alberta in June 2011. In May 2011, three men forced their way into a woman’s home in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and assaulted her and her son. A 16-year-old disabled girl was killed by armed criminals in a home invasion in Toronto in February 2011. A mother and two teenagers were kidnapped and forced into a car during a January 2011 home invasion in Abbotsford, British Columbia. These cases are terrifying and horrific. Thankfully, it is possible to take steps to avoid becoming a victim of a home invasion and to prevent home invasions. A monitored home security system is perhaps the most important piece of home security that you can install and an excellent way to prevent home invasions. In a home invasion situation, you may not be able to call the police yourself. Unlike standard security systems, a monitored system is watched by a 24-hour monitoring station. In the event of an alarm, the monitoring station will be able to summon the appropriate authorities to your home. It’s also important to have an alarm system that gives you the option to protect and monitor your doors and windows while allowing you to move around freely inside. Make sure you set your alarm to this mode when you’re at home. Otherwise, you’re leaving yourself unprotected and vulnerable. Of course, you should always make sure your doors and windows are securely locked. Having security cameras that are also monitored is a wise idea as well if you are trying to prevent home invasions<.u>. In the event of an emergency, the monitoring station can watch your security cameras to further analyze the situation and quickly send you the help you need. For more information on protecting yourself from home invasions and how to prevent home invasions please contact us today.

Five Quick Ways To Make Your Home Safer

Not every method of securing your home involves cutting-edge technology and elaborate security systems. In fact, there are several quick and easy things that you can do to improve the security of your property and make your home safer. Here are five quick tips: Replace your locks Strong dead bolts are the best possible way to lock your doors. Replace older and less effcient locks with new dead bolts to instantly make your home safer. Strengthen your frames Older wooden door frames and window frames are weak and they can easily be smashed, pushed in or otherwise tampered with by burglars. Replacing your door and your door frame with a stronger one (solid wood or metal is the best choice) will make it much more difficult to break. Remember the frames and hinges are crucial as well. Use Double-Pane Glass Double-pane glass windows or reinforced glass windows are much stronger than single-panes. Don’t Hide Extra Keys Outside Having an extra key stored under a floor mat or a rock seems like a good idea. Unfortunately, criminals know to check those places and will easily find your keys. It makes much more sense to have an extra key with a family member, friend or trusted neighbour. Improve Your Lighting Criminals like to hide in darkness. Having a well-lit home can offer great protection and make your house look nicer too!

Avoid Having Your Online Identity Compromised By Changing Your Password

Today we store a great deal of personal information on our computers. We use the Internet to access and modify sensitive information such as banking details. We interact with friends, family and co-workers online on a daily basis. Having a password stolen can damage all of those relationships and destroy your life in an instant. This is why it is so important to not only have a unique, difficult to guess password, but it’s also vital that you change your password if you ever feel you have been compromised. It is even more important to change your password if you use the same one for all of your computer activities. (Note: using the same password everywhere isn’t s safe practice.) If you’ve been hacked, had your password stolen, accidently let your password slip, had a virus on your computer or have had your password compromised in any way you need to change your password as soon as possible. It’s not worth taking chances. If you feel like someone may know your password, change it. It’s better to be safe than sorry. When you decide to pick a new password, choose one that is very different from your old one. Use a variety of letters, not just the most common ones. Use numbers and symbols as well, if permitted. Don’t use common dictionary words, easily identifiable personal information or anything else that would be easy to guess.

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  • Understand the overall crime situation in this country
Crime statistics vary drastically across the country and only by knowing the information for your region can you properly protect yourself, your family and your possessions. SafeTech Alarm Systems has been protecting people and property for over 20 years. We have compiled crime statistics from across Canada, broken them down by province and city and presented them in a straightforward manner that will help keep you safe! To receive a free copy of SafeTech Alarm Systems’ Canadian City Crime Report, please click here.

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