Safety tips for Glendale Residents

1. Dont open your door to strangers. 

 2. When away have someone collect your mail, flyers etc. 

  3. If it snows while you're out of town, get a neighbor to create car and foot tracks into the house. Virgin drifts in the driveway are a dead giveaway.
 
  4.  Install motion detector lights in front and back porch areas.

 5.  Don’t hire strangers  knocking at your door to offer to do handywork on your home, clean windows or gutters etc.

6.  Keep TV or radio on while out to indicate someone is home.
 
 6.  Dogs are a great protectors and alarm detectors!  Alert and attentive neigbhors are too.  Create a neighbourhood watch.  Exchange phone numbers with each other + do not hesitate to call 911 if you suspect anything!  LOOK OUT FOR EACH OTHER.
 
  7.  Burglers scan neighborhoods looking in windows for flat screen ttvs  computers etc.  

  8. Avoid announcing your vacation on your Facebook page. It's easier than you think to look up your address.
 
  9.close all windows fully when out. Never leave doors unlocked! 

WASP SPRAY

 
 Wasp spray can shoot up to twenty feet away and is a lot more accurate than pepper spray.The wasp spray temporarily blinds an attacker until they get to the hospital for an antidote
 
   "That's going to give you a chance to call the police; maybe get out."
 
  Maybe even save a life.
 
  Put your car keys beside your bed at night.
 
   If you hear a noise outside your home or someone trying to get in your house, just press the panic button for your car. The alarm will be set off, and the horn will continue to sound until either you turn it off or the car battery dies. Test it. It will go off from most everywhere inside your house and will keep honking until your battery runs down or until you reset it with the button on the key fob chain. It works if you park in your driveway or garage And remember to carry your keys while walking to your car in a parking lot. The alarm can work the same way there. This is something that should really be shared with everyone. Maybe it could save a life or a sexual abuse crime.
 
  Sources: Convicted burglars in North Carolina , Oregon , California , and Kentucky ; security consultant Chris McGoey, who runs http://www.crimedoctor.com/ and Richard T. Wright, a criminology professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis , who interviewed 105 burglars for his book Burglars on the Job.

Submitted by Norene Procter, Glendale Resident