18/04/2025
🏠 Going out and leaving your home unoccupied? You can help to protect your property by taking the following steps:
🔑 Hide your keys away from the letterbox - there are devices that can be used to retrieve them if they are close enough.
🔐 Lock your windows and doors, even when you are in.
💎 Remove attractive items from window view, such as electronics, car keys, cash or jewellery.
🗓 If you are planning to go away, make sure that the dates you are gone are not on display and can be seen through any windows.
⏰ If you are leaving your home, even for a short while, make sure you activate a house alarm if you have one.
🎁 Break up gift packaging and don’t put your branded boxes next to the bin, advertising what’s inside your house.
📦 Make sure any deliveries are taken inside and out of sight as soon as possible. Anything left outside and unattended is opportunity for a burglar.
✅ Immobilise have a free online service where you can mark and register your property for free.
🔦 Security lighting and house alarms are a great deterrent and installing them should be considered
For more information about how to protect your property, click here 👉 https://orlo.uk/MweKK
Anyone with information or concerns about burglary can contact police on 101 or the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
is a force wide campaign to crackdown on residential burglary. It aims to locate and arrest offenders, take positive action to reduce residential burglary through crime prevention advice, and to safeguard and support victims of crime, keeping them at the heart of investigations.
