Home & Personal Safety Tips

Home Security Tips

  • Never automatically open your door. Make sure you know who is on the other side before you open it. Insist on identification from repair and sales persons. If in doubt, call their company for identification.
  • Do not admit persons asking to use your telephone. Offer to make the call for them.
  • If you live in an apartment, be attentive and careful if you are alone in the laundry room or garage by yourself, especially late at night.  Secure all outside doors with deadbolt locks. Outer doors should be 1 inch thick solid core wood or metal.
  • Have good lighting at all entrances.
  • Add auxiliary locks to sliding glass doors to prevent lifting and sliding.  Add auxiliary locks on all windows to prevent lifting and sliding. DSC_0515_1_.jpg
  • Know your neighbors and work out a mutual watch and warning system to prevent burglaries and other break-ins.
  • If you come home and find a door or window open or signs of force, DO NOT ENTER. Call the police for assistance.
  • Use automatic timers to turn lights on and off to give the appearance you are home.
  • Stop mail and other deliveries when you are gone for a length of time, or have a trusted neighbor pick them up for you. 
  • Do not hide spare keys. Give keys to trusted neighbors or the Police Department.
  • Close and lock doors and windows every time you leave your home.
  • Install a peephole viewer in your door.
  • Have your locks re-keyed every time you move into a new house or apartment.

Personal Security Tips

  •  If you are going to be traveling, tell people where you are, where you are going, and when you expect to arrive.  Do not discuss travel plans in front of strangers. 
  •  Guard your credit cards.  Do not read credit card numbers out loud with people listening or punch in numbers on the phone with people watching.
  • If someone threatens you and demands cash or your car, give it up! 
  • Do not leave your purse unattended in your desk or a shopping cart and do not place it on the floor in a bathroom stall or dangle from your arm while walking.
  • Report suspicious persons to the police.  Do not give your phone number or address to solicitors unless you know who they are.
  •  If you think a deal is too good to be true, it probably is!   
  • Use extreme caution when using ATMs at night. Do not use ATMs alone if possible. Do not dawdle and do not flash cash.
  • You lock your car when you are not in it - lock it when you are in it. 
  • Keep a flashlight in the glove box of your car in case of an emergency.         
  • Park in well lighted areas. Do not leave valuables in plain sight.  Do not argue with people on the highway. Do not cause confrontations in traffic.
  • Do not dash into a convenience store with your car running. Turn your car off and take the keys when you pay for self-serve gasoline.  Carry your car keys on a different ring from your house keys and have them ready before reaching your car.
  • When stopping at a traffic light, leave enough space between you and the car ahead of you to pull away if necessary.

 

Other Crime Prevention Resources 

The National Crime Prevention Council, On-Line Resource Center offers crime prevention tips for self, home, and family; community policing; neighborhood building; plus information on McGruff the Crime Dog and his nephew, Scruff.  Find out how you can help to Take A Bite Out Of Crime!

The City of Wyoming and the Wyoming Police Department support the work of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.     Help find a missing child!

 

 

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