Home Safety Tips

Home Safety Tips


  • Lock all doors and windows while leaving the home unattended, even for a short while.
  • Cancel all deliveries (e.g. newspapers, magazines, etc.) when you are away from home for a few days.
  • Change all locks when keys are lost or stolen
  • Install security alarm system. Ensure that it is in a working condition.
  • The system must be switched on when the house is left unattended; before the occupant retires to bed; in unoccupied rooms of a huge house, even when the occupants are at home.
  • Keep your hand phone within easy reach.
  • Inform your Neighbourhood Police Post (NPP) when you are away on vacation.
  • Keep the grill gates locked at all times.
  • Notify to the SHO/Sector SI of your Police Station at least three days in advance about the marriage
  • Put a curtain from outside so that your absence is not easily noticed.
  • Connect a light to a timer. (They are available in the market)
  • Notify the police patrols and sector SIs
  • Do not activate answering machines of your telephones.
  • Do not reveal about your holiday trip to too many people or talk loudly about it.
  • Always hang a board in front of the gate that “ Beware of dogs”
  • Install burglar alarms or activate spy cams or web cams in an unobtrusive and tactical location in your home.

  • Burglaries: Burglary or house break is the most common form of property crime in the city. Most of the burglars target the homes having loopholes in the basic security features like poor bolts, locks, loose grills, dark areas, lack of burglar alarms etc. Burglars generally decamp with the gold and silver jewellery, cash and electronic goods like laptops and cell phones.
  • Following are important safety tips with which you can make your house less vulnerable for burglar attacks :
    • Always keep doors locked from inside
    • At home, never open the door to a caller until you know who it is.
    • You should have a peep-hole in the front door so that you can see who is out there.
    • Strict instructions to be given to the watchman not to allow any sales/un-authorized persons, if it is an apartment or gated community.
    • Whenever your employ a new domestic help, verify with police station from where he/she comes from. Download Domestic Employee Verification Form (Strictly Optional)
    • His or her photographs, fingerprints and other details should be obtained and submitted to local police station.
    • Install a door with triple lock inside the flat, superior quality night latches and special eye lens on the main door.
  • Always switch front light or rear lights on in the nights.
  • See that your window, ventilator and A/C grills are fixed deep into the wall instead of fitting them to the wooden frames with screws.
  • Never fix a window close to the doors as most of the burglars use windows to unbolt the doors from outside.
  • Avoid double shutters to the main entrance. It is very easy to break in enter.
    Avoid casting bolts which are very fragile and can break easily.
  • Always take good Iron latches and bolts.
  • Never open the doors in summer and take rest in the nights.
  • Never humiliate domestic helps on petty matters. Nor do penalize them for small damages.
  • Never handover huge cash or gold to your helps for shipping.
  • Smart people always keep their valuables in the lockers of the banks and take them only when they require them.
  • If you have to keep gold ornaments in your locker in the home, keep an old mobile phone with SIM card in the locker and note down its IMEI number.
  • If you have suspicion over domestic helps, install secret spy cams in the house and mount surveillance.