Burglary Prevention - Some Tips from Mike Greaves FMLA

The best way to beat the burglar is to put yourself in his place. Ask any self respecting burglar what is the most important part of their business and invariably you will always get the same smug reply "to not get caught!" or expletives to that affect.

"to not get caught!" I suppose it is a pretty obvious statement but herein lies the answer to your security if we take as our goal to make sure the burglar would get caught if he was foolish enough to try to attempt a robbery once we have taken the correct precautions.

The next step is to look at why crimes are unsuccessful. With this we can revolve your security around specific points.

When trying to approach and enter a building, thieves hate;
	Noise
	Time spent on the crime
	Visibility
	Traceability

Now consider the very basic and inexpensive things that we can do to secure your property;

	Prevent easy access to the rear of the property to make sure that the thief is kept visible
	Ensure you have decent door and window locks so that if an attempt is made;
	-	It takes the thief longer to get in and is therefore more likely to be caught
	-	They are visible to passers and is therefore more likely to be caught
	-	They need to break things to get in and therefore make noise and awareness to his movements
	-	They need to use force and therefore will likely leave some DNA trace, enabling them to be traced back to the crime
	An alarm system will create both noise to scare him off as well as provide a remote response to key-holders or the police and therefore the thief is therefore more likely to be caught
	A CCTV system will act as a good deterrent as it will provide traceability to the site so that the thief is therefore more likely to be caught
	If you really want to fight back we provide smoke devices that completely cover the stock plus at the same time disorientate the thief so that he could leave DNA, be unable to find his way out – all things that mean he is unlikely to succeed and is likely to be caught
	One of the latest tools to fight back is the DNA spray that can activate and cover the thief in a unique DNA formulae that is very hard to remove and is very easy to trace back to the crime scene which means the police’s chances of a prosecution are greatly enhanced
	We also have a number of other tricks and ideas that massively increase the chances of a conviction

Once we have assessed your property and circumstance and have put in the correct precautions (this is the best bit) we have dramatically reduced the likelihood of even an attempt on your house office or family.

I know that in our 40 year history we have done nothing to reduce the crime statistics. What we can say with conviction is that our experience and expertise will make a difference as to who is unfortunate enough to become a statistic.

Keyways - Protecting people and property since 1964

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