Our home and our possessions represent lifetime financial and emotional investments.
Most people spend more time at their residence than they do at the workplace or any other location.
Most crimes that take place within the residence or on the grounds, involve burglary or theft. For this reason, the following focuses on the prevention of these crimes. However, the burglary and theft prevention efforts, if successful, serve to prevent many other types of crime at the residence, such as vandalism and violent crime. Extent Burglary and theft, two of the most frequently occuring crimes, comprise in excess of one third of all the crimes in most communities. According to the FBI - 3 million burglaries and 6.5 million thefts are annually reported to the police.