We all try our best to protect our property, family and possessions with cameras, home alarms and driveway alarms, these are all great at alerting us that someone or something is approaching, or already in our property. What if you could stop or deter someone or something from actually entering your property unwanted, for example over a wall or fence?
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August 4, 2009
Wall Spikes from Prikka Strip
July 23, 2009
Home Security Driveway Alarms
With the recent crime figures showing that robbery and burglary are on the increase (source) you won’t be alone in thinking about additional home security measures to help protect your home. We have talked before here on the CPP Blog about using security markers for your possessions and personal attack alarms for you and your family as handy, reliable home security measures.
However, wouldn’t it be good if you could actually hear people or cars coming up your drive or approaching your home. Driveway Alarms are an ideal way to help alert you that someone is approaching your home, garage or garden shed. Many of the driveway alarm systems available can have extra sensors attached so you can protect multiple areas of you property from the same source.
Driveway alarm systems work by placing sensors in the areas which you want to protect. These sensors send out an invisible beam of light, which when broken by a person or car or some other object fires off an audible and lighted signal to the base unit alerting the home owner.
Once alerted by the Driveway Alarm a person is then prepared to see who is approaching, and if required can call the authorities. Simple and easy to set up, these driveway alarm systems will help protect your family and possessions by deterring thieves or burglars.
June 24, 2009
Domestic Property Home Security
In today’s gone mad society we all need to watch our family, possessions and property … Home Security CCTV is an ideal way to watch over it all. There are many different types of home security cameras on the market today, however there is a grey area in the Data protection act 1998 concerning CCTV. Many people are frightened to protect their property due to this act.
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June 5, 2009
Neighbourhood Watch
Nosy neighbours, part time policemen, call them what you want, but a neighbourhood watch scheme does help prevent crime in your area. What is a neighbourhood watch scheme? This is when the people of a community get together to tackle crime, it is now one of the most successful crime prevention schemes ever. Not only does it prevent crime, but as you are all looking out for each others property and possessions it brings back a sense of community spirit, making your area a better place to live and work.
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March 24, 2009
Door Security and Bogus Callers
Bogus Callers it seems are still talking there way into our homes and helping themselves to our valuables and belongings, in some extreme cases violence is used. It is estimated there are around 35 bogus caller crimes committed everyday in the UK (Source: Home Office). These imposters will try and impersonate Water Board Engineers, Gas / Electricity Meter readers etc… anything they can think-of to scam their way into your home.
February 27, 2009
Preventing Letterbox Arson Attacks
The death of three year old, Francesca Bimpson, after petrol was poured through the families house letterbox and set alight is a tragic reminder that arson attacks on home properties are becoming a worrying trend. In the early hours of this morning, in Barton, Oxford, a house was targetted by arsonists and set alight by pouring petrol through the letterbox – luckily there were no injuries. In Dorking, Surrey, on the 5th of this month, Lindsay Wooff and her teenage daughter, were subjected to an arson attack when someone stuffed burning paper through their letterbox. No one was hurt in the attack but the incident has shaken Mrs Woof deeply – this random attack was apparantly motiveless.
January 23, 2009
Driveway Alarms – Security by Sensors
Today the UK has officialy fallen into a recession after the Office for National Statistics released figures showing that the country’s economy has shrunk in two successive quarters. What has that to do with Driveway Alarms, you might ask. For starters, it means crime increases when times are tough. It also means that black markets flourish when there is less money around especially in stolen goods. Putting houses, cars, garages, garden sheds in the line of sight for burglars and thieves.
August 22, 2008
A THIRD OF ALL HOMES FALLS VICTIM TO GARDEN BURGLARY
CUMBRIA Police are advising people to secure their gardens in the same way they secure their homes to combat the rise of garden related crime over the summer months. Many gardeners are keeping up to £2,000 worth of ornaments and tools outdoors but doing almost nothing to protect them and their garden sheds could be thieves’ target.
Terry Rattee of Crime Prevention Products advises keeping garden sheds and gates locked and fitting Prikka Strips to wall or fence tops to thwart burglars ensuring your boundary fences, walls and gates are kept in good order as these provide a valuable deterrent for the would-be-thief.
Make sure the fabric of your shed/garage is in good overall condition and fit a good quality lock to the door making sure any fittings are bolted through the door with concealed screws. He suggests fitting one of the latest types of Siren Padlock Alarm as they are not expensive and will pay for themselves very quickly. They are robust padlocks with the huge advantage of triggering a loud two-tone 110 decibel siren if anybody tampers with the lock. The alarm switches off after 10 seconds if no further movement is detected, so it will not annoy the neighbours but will immediately re-sound if the lock is tampered with again. A little expense in terms of the lock can be money well spent and may help with any insurance premiums and subsequent claims if the worst does happen.
Marking equipment with your postcode or name using a Permanent UV Marking Pen increases the chances of the property being recovered and returned to its rightful owner and can be done quickly and easily. There are also Alpha Dot Marking Systems available which are small pots containing hundreds of tiny micro dots suspended in liquid which are simply ‘painted’ into inaccessible areas with the small brush provided. A few dabs with the brush into corners etc. are enough to deposit quite a few of the micro dots, each of which contains a unique identifying code which is traceable back to the owner via a free database. Remember, the thief would have to find ALL the dots whereas the police only need find ONE!
With the warmer weather over the summer months a lot of people will be regularly using their bicycles and storing them in sheds and garages. This is one of the most popular items for thieves to steal and sell on. Shed Alarms are a useful deterrent and can be purchased for just a few pounds and are available by Mail Order.
August 15, 2008
Cracking down on conmen with the Chaperone Spyhole Doorcam
A NATIONAL operation to target unscrupulous conmen and distraction burglars has resulted in arrests in the Gwent area last month. The operation actively targeted individuals and groups who deliberately overcharge for unsatisfactory services or goods, charge for unnecessary work, obtain money, leave work unfinished and worst of all, intimidate in order to extort money.
Gwent Police said: “This operation was all about tackling unscrupulous people who cold call, often on the most vulnerable people in our society and overcharge for unsatisfactory or even non existent work”.
When it comes to Bogus Callers and Distraction Burglary (where someone calls at the door under the pretence of needing access to the house to check for a water leak, for example) there is a brilliant new device just out called the Chaperone Automatic Spyhole Doorcam.
As the name suggests, this little unit fits into the door like a normal spyhole but is connected to an inbuilt PIR movement detector & camera which, when it spots movement up to a few feet from the door, will automatically record good quality full video of the person or persons face in addition to recording any speech! This is recorded onto a simple SD card and may later be used in evidence or to help identify the criminal. As the operation is automatic, the homeowner doesn’t have to remember to do anything but if a crime occurs (or an attempt) the information can be quickly recovered for the police.
The Chaperone Spyhole Doorcam is available from Crime Prevention Products who are one of the largest online retailers in the UK of this type of product. Managing Director, Terry Rattee said “There is often a link between rogue traders and distraction burglars whereby if a person becomes a victim of a rogue trader or distraction burglar, they will often become a repeat victim because of the exchange of information between these groups.”
The Wales regional enforcement operation, which took place at the end of May included police forces, along with local Trading Standards units within each local authority. Its aim was to reduce the number of rogue trading incidents and distraction burglary offences through robust enforcement, and to raise public awareness of doorstep crime.
As a result of the operation, there were 13 vehicles seized – 19 Trading Standards offences detected and 5 incidents reported from members of the public.
