The Essex Police website has information on how to make your home more secure from burglars.
It includes this video with a former burglar that’s worth watching:
It also includes a “Home Security Self Assessment” form which has been issued by Essex Police and Essex Crime Stoppers, by reading this information you may just find there is one extra thing you can do to secure your property. Essex Police would be interested to know if by reading the Assessment you have managed to alter something within your home security and would welcome comments and feed back by contacting them on one of the following.
Rayleigh, Rawreth Neighbourhood Police Team
Non Emergency Telephone 101 – extension 490126 (voicemail available.)
Email RayleighNPT@essex.pnn.police.uk
Website page at: www.essex.police.uk
Mobile (for general enquiries only) 07710 046161
Please remember, If you do see any suspicious activity in your street please call 101 for non emergency or 999 in the case of an emergency and take down as many details as possible including vehicle index numbers, descriptions of people, direction of travel etc as these are all very important details.
Note : this post is inspired by an email from Hayley Bloomfield, the Rawreth Parish Clerk
I’ve read through this and there really is some very good advice, and I have found one thing I intend to do at the earliest opportunity that will make things a bit safer. Thank you for this Chris, very helpful, especially in view of the current spate of burglaries.