It is not necessary in today’s times to be convinced of the need to take active steps toward keeping your family secure. Just reading the police report for the region where you live is more than enough. Your home is your family’s castle, and there is a reason castles were built. They were fortified structures to protect the occupants against real threats. You may not be able to afford to build a moat or high stone walls, but there are technologies that can help keep your family more secure.
Install Deadbolt Locks
If you have a flimsy door, you should replace it. However, all doors can be made more secure by installing strong deadbolt locks. The key is in the proper installation. If the strength of your door is not up to your liking, install one of those metal plates that are formed to wrap around the edge of the door to cover both sides where the locks are placed. Your deadbolt lock needs to have a long bolt throw that protrudes into the door frame. The strike plate needs to be secured with long hardened screws that go all the way into the framing beyond the doorjamb.
Use Anti-Kick Door Protection
There are many designs of portable and installed anti-kick mechanisms to use on entrance doors. What they all do is resist forced-entry attempts. You want to get ones that are not a hassle to use. Ideally, they would be used any time someone was at home, but that may interfere with the ease of other family members getting in as the person at home would have to disable the device to open the door. You can compromise by using them at night and keeping them in place on seldom used doors such as basement doors. The devices do not prevent forced entry, but they do resist it. This allows you time to get to a fortified room or to escape through another exit.
Install a Security System
The technology for residential alarms systems is now quite advanced and very affordable. The mass production of modular systems that include alarm control panels with touch screens, cellular access to monitoring service, apps to control the system through your smartphone, and Wi-Fi surveillance cameras makes it possible for you to have a great system at an affordable cost. You should at least protect the doors and windows of the first floor of your home with window and door sensors. Certain companies, such as Tele-Plus, know that open interior spaces can be protected with motion detectors. They have pet-friendly motion detection now, so your dog or cat will not cause false alarms. It is also a good idea to have surveillance cameras installed at all entrance doors, and make sure your system allows you to view the camera feeds from your electronic devices.
Follow Family Security Protocols
This requires a long discussion to get every family member’s input on how they feel about personal and family security. The goal should be to protect each other using standard security protocols that everyone knows and follows. This could include things such as locking doors behind you when you come in, looking to see who is there before opening the door, and keeping information private. An example of keeping information private is not sharing on social media details about the family vacation until it is over and everyone is back home. Even posting you are all out for a family dinner at a restaurant can let the wrong person know your house is empty. Everyone should attempt to look at your home and lifestyle the way a criminal with bad intent would. This greatly helps identify areas where security improvements can be made.
You do not need to lock things down like you are a warden at a super max prison, but it is prudent to take a few extra precautions for your family to stay safe. A key element to the success of any security technology or precaution is for everyone to agree on its use. The analogy about the weakest link in a chain really applies here.
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