DON’T BE A VICTIM!
LAPD Pacific Area wants you to be an informed resident of our community. The Pacific Area, like others in Los Angeles, is subject to residential burglaries. Suspects concentrate their efforts on private homes or apartments that are easy targets. Very often, suspects will simply gain entry to your property through unlocked doors or windows.
Take the following precautions:
- ALWAYS lock your doors and WINDOWS before leaving your residence.
- Remove advertisements from your front porch or door as quickly as possible. An accumulation of these items may indicate that no one is home.
- Pick up your newspapers and mail daily
- Motion detector lights strategically located around your home are a good deterrent in the evening.
- A monitored alarm system is a good safeguard
- If you have a fence around your property, keep your gates locked
- If you will be away for an extended period of time:
- Stop newspaper and mail delivery
- Set timers in your home for lights and a radio or television to go on and off intermittently at the times when they would normally go on and off- suspects that normally prowl your neighborhood know your habits.
- Let trusted neighbors know when you are leaving and when you will return.
ALWAYS REPORT SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY
