Home safety tips to keep you and you property safe at home

Home safety tips to keep you and you property safe at home

Download the Home Safe Brochure

Home should be a place where you and your family can enjoy safety and security.

Criminals are often opportunists, and will will target homes with poor home security to steal belongings.

You can secure your home by taking a few simple steps which will significantly lower the risk of your home being the target of thieves.

Here are some simple steps we all can take to protect our home.

Secure your home

  • Fit quality security doors, windows, locks, alarms, lighting and warning signs
  • Secure all windows and doors
  • Activate your alarm, smoke detectors and security lighting
  • Lock your gates, sheds and garages

Check your home

  • Ensure your street number is clearly visible
  • Keep trees and shrubs trimmed to improve visibility around your home
  • Lock away items such as ladders, tools and gardening equipment
  • Don’t leave spare keys outside the home
  • Don’t leave valuables, mobile devices or keys (home or vehicle) in clear view
  • Mark valuable property and record details

When away from home

  • Use a timer to activate an internal light or radio to give the impression someone is home
  • Have family, a trusted friend or neighbour check on your home. Inform them of your travel plans, park a vehicle in the driveway, collect the garbage bins and mail
  • Consider redirecting your mail, newspapers and deliveries
  • Never advertise your travel on social media sites

For further information about protecting your home, please download the Home Safe brochure.

For more crime prevention information visit www.police.nsw.gov.au

Community Engagement Day Huge Success

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Tweed Valley Neighbourhood Watch, in conjunction with Tweed/Byron Local Area Command police, had a very successful Community Engagement Day last week on Friday 30 January, 2015 at Tweed City Shopping Centre.

We were joined by several police, VIPs (Volunteers in Policing), NHW volunteers including our executive board.

The words of our Tweed/Byron LAC Crime Prevention Officer, Senior Constable Bradley Foster, state it best:

Tweed Byron LAC would like to take this opportunity to thank the Tweed Heads volunteers in policing, members of the Tweed Valley Neighbourhood Watch group and the Tweed City Shopping Center management for assisting with the very successful community engagement day last Friday 30th January 2015.

We launched the new ATV for high visibility policing on local beaches and use during the numerous music festivals. We also offered the free installation of registration plate security tamper resistant screws, as a crimes prevention strategy for our local community.

Over 50 vehicles had tamper resistant screws fitted to their license plate and we met hundreds of great community minded residents and visitors.

Due to the great success of this event we will be holding others. Early murmouring suggests that the next event will be in 6 months or so.

We’ll keep you posted.

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Thanks from our Tweed Valley Neighbourhood Watch Chairman, Geoff Provest.

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