Securing your home & garden
General and easy security precautions
Marking your property | Bogus Callers
Marking your property
- This can help ensure that your property is returned to you and that thieves are caught if they try to sell it on
- Note down the serial numbers of your TV, video, hi-fi, personal computer and camera equipment to make it easier for the police to identify them if they are recovered.
- Marking garden equipment such as your strimmer, lawn mower and garden gnomes can also be a sensible idea.
- For valuable jewellery or other small possessions a safe is often the best option.
- To help mark your property, you can get easy-to-use kits from stationers and DIY stores. It is important where you mark an item, particularly if you decide to engrave it permanently.
- If you want the mark to be out of sight, choose somewhere behind or underneath. However, don't pick somewhere so hidden that the police would not be able to find it.
- Whichever method you use, the mark should be so secure that removing it would damage the property or affect how the item performs.
- You can mark items using an etching tool or an ultra-violet marking pen. You should use your postcode and the number of your house.
- UV marking should only be used as a last resort as the pens ink can fade in time
- For ceramics you can freely use ceramic marking pens that can mark china, glass or any other glazed surfaces.
- Use permanent paint for gardening equipment and other objects where appearance is less important.
Having marked your property, advertise this fact using the free stickers that are available from your local police station. Take the photographs of all your valuables against a plain background and for jewellery include a ruler to give an idea of size. Keep your photographs safe at all times.
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Securing your home & garden
- Introduction
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- Insert security devices
- Security for flat owners
- Outdoor security
- Leaving your home unoccupied
- Moving house
- Christmas preparations
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- General security precautions
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