Burglar-proof home

Summer may be the time for fun in the sun - but it's also time to make sure homes are secure before hitting the vacation trail.

Police and a home alarm system specialist both suggested a few tips that can be done so that people don't end up coming back home from a vacation to find their house burglarized.

Police Cpl. Sherrie Carruth suggested the best way to plan how to secure the home is to put yourself in the mind of a burglar and see how you can break into your own home. If you can find an easy way in, you should fix that problem right away.

She also said one of the most common mistakes people make is that they simply don't lock their doors and windows.

"Interestingly enough our officers... find no forced entry because there didn't need to be one," she said. "They're leaving their windows unlocked, their doors unlocked, sometimes even up... It does not take a burglar all day. With two minutes they can have what they want out of there."

Brad Holcomb said about 95 percent of burglars go through a door, and usually the back door if there is one.

The 1st Alarm general manager said any basic alarm system would monitor all the entry doors along with the windows. He also suggests a keyed deadbolt for the doors and if you have sliding windows, something as simple as a steel rod in an interior window track can stop many burglars from going in that way.



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