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Safety Tips
The Festive Season is around the corner. With it being a time for celebration, relaxation and joy, it is also as notoriously an active period for criminals around Gauteng. Already within the past few days various reports have infiltrated related to stabbings, shootings and armed robberies around Johannesburg.
Do not display expensive jewellery/watches in public. A number of reported follow-home incidents have occurred in 2011 throughout Johannesburg. These criminals who follow you home are professionals and will execute their plan having followed you back totally undetected from shopping centres and other public places.
Ensure that your vehicle’s wiper blades and windshield surface condition is in an acceptable condition.
ADT Security and the National Hijack Prevention Academy bring you these important security tips:
• Remember that 68% of all hijacking occur close to home so be especially vigilant when pulling out of your driveway or coming home.
• If you have an electric gate, do not pull into your driveway before opening the gate. This can allow hijackers to box you in.
The chance of small children being seriously hurt, even killed, during a collision when not securely fastened into an appropriately-sized baby seat is five times as great as when they are secure. Paramedics notice on a daily basis how irresponsible adults allow their children to sit in the front seats, or even stand between the front seats.
Safety tips from ER24:
Winter is fast approaching. The mornings and evenings are getting slightly chilly and those long sleeves are being pulled out from the back of the cupboard. We need to start preparing our families for those inevitable episodes of colds and flu, and makes sure we are prepared for those really chilly days.
The two year old little girl who died last week in Johannesburg after being electrocuted in her home should have alarms bells ringing in every parent or guardians ears.
Warning from ADT, there are increased cases of dog poisoning, should you find your dog poisoned, but still alive, rush him IMMEDIATELY to your local emergency Vet.
Report your deliberately poisoned pet to the Police. Open a case. If incidents are reported, patterns could be established, and this may contribute to the arrest of criminals.
• When a person has been a victim of crime, he/she can visit the nearest police station to report the crime.
It is almost Holiday time, please ensure the following:
Your entire home is checked for weak points that need additional security such as new barriers on doors, windows and in passageways. Don't forget outbuildings.
