Home Security Crime Prevention Advice from West Yorkshire Poice
Dear Occupier/Househoder A crimina is simpy ooking for the opportunity to commit crime, or is suddeny hit by a tempting situation. If we simpy remove that opportunity and temptation and make it difficut for someone, then it is estimated that a staggering 90% of crime coud be prevented. Our aim is to prevent and detect crime. Pease read the encosed information which gives you advice on improving your home security to prevent and reduce crime. Immobiise is the word s argest FREE register of possession ownership detais. Basicay your things! Immobiise can be used by you to register your vaued possessions. The registered items and ownership detais of Immobiise account hoders are viewabe on the Poice nationa property database. This on-ine checking service is used by a UK Poice forces to trace owners of ost and stoen property. As a direct resut of Immobiise there are more than 250 cases a week where property is returned. Immobiise is provided to users FREE of charge REGISTER @ www.immobiise.com It s FREE and Easy The UK Nationa Property Register Mobie Phones MP3 Payers Hair Straighteners DVD Payers ipads Cameras Laptops Games Consoes Jeweery Stereos Sat Navs Bicyces Watches TV s Many More... If you require further information pease contact your oca Neighbourhood Poicing Team or Crime Reduction Officer. For a fu ist of contacts visit www.westyorkshire.poice.uk/npt FOR POLICE NON - EMERGENCIES IN AN EMERGENCY ALWAYS CALL 999 1
Your Home The crime prevention advice beow is about perimeter security, the she of the buiding and possibe targets within the home. It is recommended that where advice is given about security products that they compy with British or the equivaent European Standards. Perimeter The first thing to think about is the space around your home and the garden. Don t aow your garden to present opportunities for the crimina. Make sure neighbours can see your property by cutting back hedges, trees and bushes. Keep fencing beow 6ft in height to aow uninterrupted surveiance. Treis topping aso makes cimbing difficut. Secure garden furniture to the ground and take photographs of it. Ladders and garden toos shoud be ocked away, as they can be used by offenders to gain access to your home. Consider defensive panting. The use of pricky pants create a physica and psychoogica barrier and have proven to be a successfu deterrent. Criminas know that a sma item of ripped cothing or bood can hep the Poice identify them. Consider using the foowing pants: Berberis Stenophya (Barberry) Berberis Juianae (Barberry) Iex Aquifoium Ferox Argentea (Hedgehog Hoy) Mahonia Media Winter Sun Pyracantha Orange Gow (Firethorn) Chaenomees X Superba Crimson and God (Japonica) Lighting Keep your property we it during the hours of darkness: Make sure that existing ighting is maintained in working order. If instaing new ighting, West Yorkshire Poice and the Home Office recommend ow wattage ights known as dusk to dawn ighting. Fit outdoor ights out of easy reach - at a height of at east 2.5 metres (8 feet) 2
Intruder Aarms Intruder aarms can be used to improve physica security measures in your home. They shoud be used as a deterrent and a means of summoning hep if physica security is breached. Your system shoud meet European Standard EN50131-1 There are two main types of aarm systems: Audibe ony - When the aarm is activated it operates an interna and/or externa siren to attract attention to the property. Remotey Monitored System - When the aarm is activated it sends a signa to a centra monitoring station which wi automaticay ca a keyhoder of your choice, and if you require it, the poice. If you decide on a poice response to your aarm it must be instaed and maintained by a company that conforms to the Association of Chief Poice Officers (ACPO) security systems poicy. Currenty ony two such organisations are accepted by the poice: NACOSS (NSI) Inspectorate Te: 0191 2963242 Web: www.nsi.org.uk Doors The Security Systems and Aarm Inspection Board (SSAIB) Te: 01628 637512 Web: www.ssaib.org If your front and back doors are not secure, neither is your home. Two thirds of burgars gain entry through a door. Quaity ocks and bots are ony as strong as the door and the frame to which they are fitted. Wooden doors shoud be soid and at east 44mm (1 ¾ ) thick. Check that the frame is we fixed, and if weak or rotten repace it. Door frames can be strengthened with the use of meta strips screwed to the inside of the frame caed London or Birmingham bars. Gass panes on or around doors are especiay vunerabe, so it s worth repacing them with aminated gass. If you repace a door it is better to buy a new door set avaiabe in different materias certified to British Standard PAS 24-1 Doors of Enhanced Security. Bought as a compete kit, this shows that the door, frame, ocks and fittings have been attack tested. Specify this standard if you are having repacement doors. Fit 5 ever mortise deadocks to British Standard BS3621 to a externa wooden doors, which shoud be compimented with mortise bots to the top and bottom of the door, incuding French doors. UPVC door ocks - The Eurocyinder shoud be a break secure cyinder conforming to TS007 or Sod Secure SS312 as shown opposite. 3
Patio doors shoud have the siding section on the inside and have anti-ift bocks. Muti ock systems are recommended or insta mortise security bots with removabe keys at the top and bottom of both doors. Windows Windows are popuar with burgars, either by breaking gass or just being eft open. If you are repacing windows make sure they are certified to British Standard BS7950 Windows of Enhanced Security. Consider using aminated gass in ground-foor and accessibe windows such as those above a fat roof. Laminated gass hods together when shattered or when someone tries to break it. Ground foor, easy to reach windows, above a fat roof or near a drainpipe, shoud have ocks uness used as a fire escape. In this case aminated gass sti provides security. Gazing can aso be protected by adding accredited adhesive window fim. A types of window have ocks avaiabe to enhance security. Metock Meta ock Sash Jammer Sash ock Swing ock Stay ock Window bot Transom ock 4
Keys Aways keep house and car keys in a safe pace and out of view. Never eave your house or car keys in or near a door or window. Burgars have been known to use a fishing rod or magnet on a stick to stea them through the etterbox. Property Marking Permanenty mark a your vauabe property with one of the foowing methods: 5 Utra vioet marker pen (House number & postcode) DNA soution tested to standard LPS 1225. Stamping/Etching/Engraving (House number & postcode) Register a vauabes on www.immobiise.com Garden Sheds and Garages Garages and garden sheds in particuar are vunerabe to attack simpy because of the construction of the buiding, so to keep your property secure pease consider the recommendations beow: Fit strong padocks and hardware to shed and garage doors. Make sure padocks conform to British Standard BS EN12320. Fit ocks or bars to windows. Lock adders inside your garage or shed. Consider ockabe stee boxes or anchor posts fitted to the foor to secure toos and equipment. Garden toos and machinery shoud be permanenty marked with your postcode. (See property marking). Garden machinery, motor cyces and bicyces shoud be secured inside the shed or garage using high tensie stee rope and high security cosed shacke padocks to British Standard BS EN12320 using ground anchors. Is anybody in? Most burgaries take pace when the house is empty during the evening or in the hours of darkness. Use automatic timer switches to turn ights on when it gets dark, these can aso be used to turn on other appiances such as radios. Surveiance CCTV can be used to enhance the physica security of your home. Carefu consideration shoud be given to the type of system you insta. The presence of CCTV shoud be supported by suitabe signage. Make sure that a component parts are to British Standard BS EN 50132-7. The codes of practice in reation to CCTV are avaiabe on www.ico.gov.uk
Security Assessment Present Condition Main front/rear doors 1. Front - Wood n Soid core? Yes n No n4 UPVC n Composite n 2. Frame - good condition? Yes n No n4 3. Door viewer? Yes n No n4 4. Door chain/restrictor? Yes n No n4 5. Locks - 5-ever mortice ock/ Yes n No n4 Euro profie ock cyinder 9. Patio doors - additiona security? Yes n No n4 Windows 10. Window ocks on a windows? Yes n No n4 11. Louvre windows? Yes n No n4 Lighting 12. Main entry/exit? Yes n No n4 13. Externa ighting? Yes n No n4 14. Interna timers? Yes n No n4 Aarms 15. Intruder aarm? Yes n No n4 Reporting Officers Recommendations Comments Wooden doors shoud be in good repair and at east 44mm (1 3 /4 ) thick, and conform to PAS 24-1. Frames shoud be in good repair and we fixed. Frames can be strengthened around the ocks with the use of meta strips caed London & Birmingham bars. Door furniture shoud be fit for purpose. For UPVC doors consider encosed security handes. A products shoud conform to the appropriate standard where appicabe. I.E. Secured by Design standards, Sod Secure or reevant British or European Standard. Wooden doors shoud be in good repair and at east 44mm (1 3 /4 ) thick, and conform to PAS 24-1. Five ever mortised deadocks conforming to BS3621 Euro profie ock cyinder to TS007 or Sod Secure SS312 Diamond Standard. Mortised security bots with removabe keys to the top and bottom of a wooden door or sash jammers for UPVC Insta window ocks certified to BS7950 windows of enhanced security, for UPVC insta sash jammers. Consider gueing sats in pace or insta specia window ocks. Consider using aminated gass in ground foor and accessibe windows, such as those above a fat roof. The main entry/exit shoud be we it. Use high efficiency ow energy ighting. Controed by a dusk to dawn switch that comes on when it s dark. Lights shoud be positioned above 2.5mtrs (8 ) high. Fit 24hr timer switches to amps to ight up your home when you re not in. Recommend that intruder aarms are remotey monitored systems to EN50131-1. CONFIDENTIAL The information given in this booket is free of charge without the intention of creating a contract. Neither do the Home Office or Poice take any ega responsibiities for the advice given. This booket can ony give a view on what measures might reduce the risk of crime and there can be no guarantee that the measures wi prevent crime. 6
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