Preventing Crimes at Home

The Orange County Sheriff's Department issued a news bulletin encouraging residents to make their homes a tougher target to victimize in light of two home invasion robberies that occurred in an Orange County jurisdiction.

Here are a few tips from their suggestions.  Follow the link at the end for their entire bulletin.

• Always lock your doors and windows, even when leaving for “just a minute.”
• Never leave a house key under a doormat, in a flower pot, or on the ledge of the door.
• Be sure to use the dead bolt lock.
• Attach the strike plate (the jamb fastening that receives the bolt in the locking position) for the dead bolt to the door with four to six 3-inch brass wood screws that penetrate through the frame to the structural wood.
• Lock your side garage door at night and when you are away from home.
• Lock your garage door leading into the house.
• Keep your garage door closed. Thieves steal items from open garages in less than 30 seconds.
• Do not leave items of value outside your home. Thieves may take items from your porch, patio or yard. 

OCSD Bulletin

Crime can occur anywhere in our mobile society.  If you see something suspicious, report it to your Police Department.  In the City of Los Alamitos, call (562) 594-7232 or 9-1-1 if it is an Emergency.