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National Crime Prevention Council

National Crime Prevention Council. What Homeowners Need to Know About Lock Security. GOAL. Provide participants information and materials to help them enhance local law enforcement-led community outreach activities about the role of lock security in protecting homes against burglary.

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National Crime Prevention Council

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  1. National Crime Prevention Council What Homeowners Need to Know About Lock Security

  2. GOAL Provide participants information and materials to help them enhance local law enforcement-led community outreach activities about the role of lock security in protecting homes against burglary National Crime Prevention Council

  3. OBJECTIVES • Discuss the latest trends in home burglary • Present a comprehensive approach to preventing home burglary • Review basic preventive behaviors homeowners need to know • Share tools from NCPC and Medeco that can help you educate folks in the communities you serve National Crime Prevention Council

  4. Home burglary: what are the latest trends ? • Crime – UCR stats released 09/24/07 • The only property crime to increase in 2006 over 2005! Up 1.3% by volume • As many as 60% of completed home burglaries involve entry through an unlocked door or window! • Victim • $4 billion in lost property in crimes reported in 2006 • Only 15% of property crimes cleared by arrest • Offender • Motivations now include identity theft, meth use • Lock bumping National Crime Prevention Council

  5. Preventing burglary: a comprehensive approach • Access control • Locks, alarms, windows, doors • Surveillance • Lights • Territoriality • Landscaping and other ways to define private space • Maintenance • Upkeep of the lawn, property, house • Community involvement – Neighborhood Watch • Neighborhoods watching out and helping out National Crime Prevention Council

  6. Preventing home burglary: basic steps for homeowners • Home security assessment • Self-assessment or with help from law enforcement • Review of insurance policy • Discounts available for use of security devices? • Policy about payment of claims related to home burglary • Key control • Locks – talk to a locksmith • High security • Patented protected • Pick- and drill-resistant • Use of other access control and security devices • Alarms, high security windows, doors National Crime Prevention Council

  7. Tools from NCPC • www.ncpc.org – reproducible brochures • 2007-2008 Crime Prevention Month Kit • 10 Tips for Window Safety brochure • Locking Your Home brochure (Medeco) • Public service ad on key control • Law Enforcement Education Kit – sponsored by Medeco • Assessment tools • Presentation materials • Link to info on locksmiths and McGruff Freedom Program • Newspaper mat features • Refillable stash of residential, business brochures • Lock set for use in demonstrations National Crime Prevention Council

  8. McGruff Wants You to • Visit our website – ncpc.org – for more… • Kick up your burglary prevention outreach • Use NCPC resources, including McGruff • Get a Law Enforcement Education Kit! • Thank Medeco for sponsoring great tools for law enforcement and the communities they serve! National Crime Prevention Council

  9. For more information on how NCPC can help you prevent home burglary, contact Terri Kelly Managing Director Community Outreach and Government Relations National Crime Prevention Council 2345 Crystal Drive 5th Floor Arlington, VA 22202 Tel: 202-261-4125 Fax: 202-296-1356 www.ncpc.org National Crime Prevention Council

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