Beat the burglars
Burglars don’t take holidays. While we’re humming “summertime and the living is easy”, burglars are likely to be singing “summertime and the pickings are easy”! Christmas for burglars is a celebration of a different kind - delighting in how easy some people make it for them to gain access to their homes.
Making a house secure from burglars often has more to do with common sense than dollars and cents. The most staggering statistic is not the actual number of ‘break and enters’ that occur each year, significant though it is, but that in man-instances the crime was preventable.
However, the average burglar is an opportunist, on the look out for quick entries and fast exits, and the more barriers you place in their path the less likely the will be to attempt a break in. The 10 minutes it takes to pop out to the shops, or drop the kids at school, is long enough for a burglar to get in, grab a few valuables and take off - so always lock doors and windows, regardless of how long you think the house will be vacant.
