Home Security
Improving home security need not be expensive to be effective. We advocate taking the following measures:
- Design out crime
- Reduce the risk in your home
- Home Risk Assessment
- Door step code
- Protecting people in your properties and care
- Our agency and corporate services
Design out crime
Taking some simple measures can make a huge difference to home security and personal safety. We have identified common home crime zones and developed a product portfolio that can reduce the risks for each one.
All of our products come as DIY home security kits. However, many of our customers have benefited from our free Home Risk Assessment and by having IDentislot installed for them. This allows our engineers to offer additional support and advice on home protection and door step safety.
Having a secure and safe home is vital to our well being. Living in fear is debilitating, disempowering and, reduces our independence and ability to enjoy life. Let Duxburys Reduce the Risk Ltd help improve your quality of life.
Reduce the risk in your home
Home Risk Assessment
We offer a comprehensive Home Risk Assessment for you and your home. It covers significant house security zones, including doors, windows, cars and personal risk. We take your life style into consideration too. Some people may be at home all day and at greater risk of door step crime, whereas others may be out or away frequently and therefore at greater risk of break-in. Our Home Risk Assessment will advise you of the simple measures you can take to reduce crime.
Door step code
We are passionate about helping people to reduce their personal and property crime risks and to become crime prevention aware. Here are a few home security tips to reduce door step crime.
- Make Appointments
Only speak with strangers who have had the courtesy to make an appointment with you, no matter who they claim to be, e.g. Police, local authority, gas, electric or water company representatives.
When making or confirming an appointment create a PASSWORD with the company for them to use when they knock at your door.
- Challenge ALL strangers. Ask for their ID card, even if they claim they are handling an emergency
Bogus callers need to gain access to your home as quickly as possible. They don’t like drawing attention to themselves. Stalling them acts as a deterrent and is more likely to provide you with witnesses in the event of a crime.
- Ask ALL strangers to pass their ID Card through our IDentislot
If they don’t have an ID card or refuse to put it through, send them away!
If they have an ID card, look for the name of the company on the card.
- Are you expecting that company to call?
NO - If you are NOT expecting that company to call, simply give the card back to the stranger and ask them to make an appointment.
YES - If you are expecting the company on the ID card to call, ask the caller for the PASSWORD. If the password is correct, you can be more certain that they are genuine.
ALWAYS REMEMBER
IT'S YOUR HOME - ONLY LET CALLERS IN WHEN THEY CONFORM TO YOUR DOOR STEP CODE.
Protecting people in your properties and care
- Protect residents
- Provide long term, effective, crime prevention solutions
- Promote independent living
- Develop a standard protocol across properties
We have worked with key crime prevention practitioners in social housing, the community, local councils and industry to offer simple, cost effective, crime prevention tools, suitable for all properties.
Our award winning and police approved IDentislot has led us to develop an effective partnership with the NHC. Together we can offer expert advice and provide valuable support to professional practitioners who are developing strategies for; housing renewal and regeneration; sustainable communities; safer and healthier housing; crime reduction; home intruder prevention; crime and disorder projects.
IDentislot and our door step code offer protection against bogus callers for any property and at very little cost.
Our agency and corporate services
We can offer the following service to those protecting a number of properties.
- A support document to help develop a distraction burglary / theft prevention strategy
- Help assessing the needs of the house holders in your area
- Advice on stakeholder protocols
- Community presentations to encourage interaction and reaction
- A range of hardware and technology to combat crime
- An education / information programme to empower house holders
- Training and education for professionals
- Recommendations for Home Risk Assessments
- Post project support, to ensure the continuation of the initiative
- Advice on marketing and subsidized promotional posters and leaflets
- Highly trained and skilled installers
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