Burglary Prevention Checklist

-Organize a Neighborhood Watch program. Neighbors

working together make one of the best crime-fighting

teams around.

-Keep shrubbery trimmed. Tall, thick shrubbery

provides cover for burglars and lets them work

undetected.

-Keep the area around your house well lit. This will

discourage burglars.

-Using an engraving pen, write your Driver’s License

number on your personal property.

-Make sure that the locks on your doors and windows

are strong and secure, and use them. Most burglars

won’t attempt to break a secured window for fear of

noise and the attention it would attract.

-Make a home inventory list, complete with photos or

video. Store this list away from your home (Ask your

Farmers agent about the Insurance and Household

Inventory Record brochure offered through Farmers.)

-Never leave a house key in such obvious places as

mailbox or under a doormat.

-Have a security plan for when you are on vacation.

Ask a friend to pick up mail, newspapers, etc.

-Use automatic timers to turn on lights, radios and

televisions. An especially effective method is to have

one timer turn off a bathroom light as one timer turns

on a bedroom light and vice versa, to give an

impression of movement within the house. Also, it’s

important to change the sequence at least every

two months.

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