Crime & Safety
Protecting Your Home Over the Holidays
Good tips if you are traveling for Thanksgiving or Christmas.
Precautions you can take: traveling
- Burglars search for homes that appear to be unoccupied. Leave your car in the driveway, set timers for your lights, leave a television on
- Stop newspaper and mail delivery
- Have a neighbor watch over your home
Burglars want to spend no more than 60 seconds breaking into a home, these could change their minds.
- Deadbolt locks, pins in locking windows
Don't give burglars any help
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- Clear shrubs and trees to keep windows visible
- Secure tool sheds and ladders
- Some thieves use tools to assist them in breaking windows
--tips courtesy of Cumberland County Sheriff's Office
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