It is almost Holiday time, please ensure the following:
Your entire home is checked for weak points that need additional security such as new barriers on doors, windows and in passageways. Don’t forget outbuildings.
Alarm tested and in good working order.
All door and security gate locks tested and keys in safe place.
All sliding security gates closed and locked.
Garage doors locked and no automatic gate or garage door controls left lying around.
Shrubs around entrances trimmed so that they don’t offer concealment to intruders and garden tidied to look ‘lived in’ while residents away.
Lights connected to timers or movement sensors.
Newspapers and other home deliveries cancelled for the period residents are away and someone arranged to collect mail.
No mobile phones or other small valuables left lying around.
List of emergency numbers near telephone or programmed into mobile phone e.g. local SAPS, fire station, ambulance service and letting agent’s a/h number.
Security service provider informed of period property will be unoccupied.
