The meeting began, introducing our neighborhood watch group and Officer.
Officer demonstrated home safety and neighborhood watch
- Officer, with 20 years of police experience. Returned to our next door police station two years ago. Now in charge of the crime prevention department. Including family, business, school, church, home safety, personal safety, and neighborhood watch.
- Crime prevention: home safety, house, cash, and vehicle safety. Safety and security, such as home safety, preventing thieves
- Live on a small island. When leaving home, unattended, Neighborhood Watch can help neighbors who are away from home on holiday.
- Personal safety: Pay attention to your surroundings. Wearing earphones on the street has the risk of resistance-traffic and the risk of being stolen. Be alert and report suspicious people or things to the police. It is safer to travel with several people than to travel alone.
- Dark and bright: Criminals like dark places, bright places (such as installing LED lights) for extra safety. Screaming for help may scare off criminals
- Distracted theft: Partnership robberies often use methods that distract you. Do not leave your wallets, handbags, important items, merchandise in unattended carts or cars. The thieves will use the time when you are distracted and attracted by another partner thieves to steal your belongings.
- Bank card: protect your password. Pay attention to cover when inputting. Someone will use the camera to zoom in to peek at your password. Sometimes, if there is an extra slot on the outside of the ATM machine, pull it by hand to make sure it is not a device for secretly reading bank cards.
- Dangerous stranger: The stranger calls the door and asks through the door. Let the other party know that the adult is at home.
- Identity theft: Don’t leak personal information type SIN card numbers, etc. on the phone or online.
- Home safety: install cameras and install fences. Precautions for installing fences: thieves like fences that are too high to block the line of sight. The majority (60%) of thieves would jump over the fence in the backyard to steal. 20% of thieves will walk through the front door, and the remaining 20% will use windows, garages or other means. Independent houses that cannot be seen by neighbors, where trees obstruct the entrance, and other places obstructing the surrounding sight, are places where thieves like to enter.
- Compare the tree obstructing the line of sight and inserting branches. Thieves usually drive in one place to start, leave quickly, and then go to another remote area to re-select the place to start. To avoid the chance of being caught.
- Fence comparison: The bad guys may go over the fences that completely block the surrounding view. The thorny flowerbed under the fence sometimes reduces the risk of the bad guys.
- Front entrance protection. The depth of the front door lock frame screws will affect the protection of the lock. Other locks are good, but if the wooden door frame is not good, it is easy to be kicked open. Increasing the iron bars on the door frame can better protect the safety of the original wooden door frame.
- It is very good to install the induction lamp at the main entrance. It can remind people around when it is turned on and off at night. Improve safety.
- Front entrance protection. The glass protective film installed on the front door and window can enhance the protection strength and is not easy to be broken.
- Camera protection. The front and back doors are protected. If a good camera is not in the right position, it will not be able to see the face and clothes of the other party, and it will not help much. Neighbors watch and help each other. Neighbors can see, send messages, call, and check the surrounding vehicles, all of which can help improve safety. Thieves often park their cars on the back street, and neighbors watch each other, and they may notice suspicious vehicles parked next to them.
- Camera registration. The York area camera registration website https://www.yrp.ca/en/crime-prevention/Security-Camera-Registry.asp can help improve community safety.
- Security system. The first goal of thieves is usually the bedroom to improve their efficiency. The security system has doors, windows, infrared sensors and other equipment. The alarm and light-emitting devices outside the security system house can attract the attention of neighbors.
- Unlocked door: The police officer noticed that people often did not lock the door. Except in the case of lost car and property, some people put the key in the car, so that the thief used the key to enter the house, and the doors and windows showed no signs of damage.
- In the parking lot: People often forget their parking space and press the emergency button, which reminds themselves and the thief. It’s not safe if a burglar stands by your car. Remember your parking space.
- Before approaching your car, take a look at the surroundings.
- Underground parking lot, pay attention to the surrounding conditions. If there is building security, report suspicious people and cars.
- Warm-up thieves and license plate thieves. Do not leave the car while warming up
- Freight thief: In the case, it was found that the thief directly drove into the stolen car in the container.
- Crime stopper is an anonymous report call. 1-800-222-8477 (tips). Suitable for anonymous reporting.
- Community, neighborhood watch, logo
- Street watch members-street watch captain-district watch captain-community safety liaison police officer
- The city government has prepared five signs to be placed on the two main streets in our group. Everyone confirms the location of the entrance and exit of the street.
- Break through barriers: Neighbors Watch will solve most problems within the community, including child safety.
- The role of the liaison officer: better use e-mail than the phone. In case of emergency, please call 911. For non-emergency situations, please call 905-881-1221. Officer helped us answer community safety questions and contacted the city government to set up signs.
- Thank you.