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TRELLIDOR’S HOME SECURITY TIPS

Use Trellidor’s security tips to help prevent a house robbery:

• Protect every single entry door and window with good quality security barriers.
• Keep security doors closed and locked at all times, even when entertaining.
• Make sure your property is well-lit.
• Make your perimeter wall or fencing difficult to breach.
• Clean up outside leaving no hiding places for prowlers or implements for them to use.
• Install external sensor beams to pick up intruders before they get to you.
• Install an alarm, even if you can’t afford armed response.
• Let your dogs live inside with you – they’re the best early warning system.
• Keep records of computer and appliance serial numbers and take photos of valuables to identify them if necessary.
• Don’t challenge intruders as they may be carrying a weapon and are very likely to use it.
• Don’t venture outside to check on suspicious noises: phone someone for help. 

HOW TO HANDLE A BURGLARY

• Contact your nearest police station.  Visit the website http://www.saps.gov.za/ to find contact details.
• Don’t touch anything after the robbers have left – wait until fingerprints and statements have been taken. 
• Don’t allow the crime scene to be disturbed by people walking around as they may destroy evidence.
• If there has been sexual violence, don’t wash until you’ve seen the District Surgeon because vital evidence could be lost.

While waiting for the police to arrive, try to make notes of:

• What the robbers were wearing
• What type of weapons they used
• Any physical characteristics you can remember
• If they arrived in a vehicle, what type, colour, registration
• The direction they left in, if you saw them leave
• What language they were speaking

Housebreaking aftermath

A robbery is a shocking experience, whether violence was involved or not.  It's advisable to get expert trauma advice and/or counselling afterwards, even if you feel you're handling it well. There are many organisations such as Lifeline that can help. Phone them to talk through your experience or to make an appointment for trauma advice through their Trauma Debriefing Unit.

Call us for your physical security

Trellidor will do a free security assessment for you and provide a quotation to help secure your home.