Home Safety
There are quick, inexpensive ways to stay safe at home. Locking windows and doors, installing a new lock or burglar alarm, and teaching your children not to open the door to strangers are all good measures. Kwikset, corporate sponsor of NCPC and its Celebrate Safe Communities Initiative, has information about home safety measures and the Mcgruff® Smart Security Tour at its site.
Podcast
NCPC’s chief trainer interviews Cory Sneed of the Scottsdale, AZ police department about how the design, maintenance, and operation of apartment communities can result in a 70 percent reduction in general service calls and an 80 percent reduction in narcotics calls. Click here for the podcast!
Blogs
NCPC partner Kwikset offers five hassle-free ways to secure your home.
Kwikset offers five simple ways to improve your home’s safety. Read More!
Brochure
Download here Crime Prevention Month Home Safety Brochure.
Resources
National Crime Prevention Council
Rapid Response Outreach ToolsThese free educations tools can be localized and used with NCPC’s Rapid Response radio public service ads that provide a quick response to community crises. They are available in three sizes and in English and Spanish. Many are also available in Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, and French.
Keep Your Community Safe From Vacant Property Crime
Protect Your Home and Family From Intruders
Protect Your Home and Your Family
Secure Your Home
Lock Crime Out of Your Home
This reproducible tri-fold brochure offers six ways to secure your home from crime.
Training on Home and Neighborhood Safety
NCPC offers an assortment of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) training courses and materials that are based on the contention that crime can be prevented through improvements to the physical environment. Click here!
Home Security Checklist
This two-sided, reproducible home safety survey shows users how to improve the security of their home and its contents.
A Safety Checklist For Apartments
This one-sided, reproducible flier presents tips for keeping an apartment safe and secure.
Locking Your Home
This 12-page, full-color brochure, produced by NCPC in cooperation with Medeco Security Locks, Associated Locksmiths of America, and the Security Industry Association tells homebuyers how to evaluate their security needs.
National Sheriffs’ Association
Home Lighting Audit
This booklet tells how to conduct an evaluation of home lighting and provides a form to facilitate an audit.
Home Security Inspection Checklist
Home burglaries can be prevented. This survey can be used to ensure that a private residence is secure.
Home Security Inspection Checklist (Espanol)
Home burglaries can be prevented. This survey, in Spanish, can be used to ensure that a private residence is secure.
Vacation Checklist Brochure: Never Give a Burglar an Even Break
This brochure tells how to keep a home safe while the occupants are away, including what to do the day before leaving and the day of departure.
Vacation Checklist Brochure: Never Give a Burglar an Even Break (Espanol)
This Spanish-language brochure tells how to keep a home safe while the occupants are away, including what to do the day before leaving and the day of departure.
Preventing Burglaries: How To Protect Your Home
This booklet presents step-by-step instructions and a checklist aimed at keeping a home safe from burglaries.
Preventing Burglaries: How To Protect Your Home (Espanol)
This booklet, in Spanish, presents step-by-step instructions and a checklist aimed at keeping a home safe from burglaries.
Personal Property Identification Record
This form, which can be used to record the description, serial numbers, and value of items most likely to be stolen, can help in the identification of recovered articles.
Personal Property Identification Record (Espanol)
This Spanish-language form, which can be used to record the description, serial numbers, and value of items most likely to be stolen, can help in the identification of recovered articles.
Prevent Rural Crime
Rural residents face unique challenges. This booklet, aimed at farmers, ranchers, and others who live in rural areas provides tips on how to keep buildings and property safe from burglary and larceny theft.
Rural Crime Booklet (Espanol)
Rural residents face unique challenges. This Spanish-language booklet, aimed at farmers, ranchers, and others who live in rural areas provides tips on how to keep buildings and property safe from burglary and larceny theft.
Target Hardening
A 12-page flipbook provides easy-to-read tips on how to strengthen a home’s defenses.
Target Hardening: Self-Paced Learning Participant Handbook
This handbook is intended to accompany the Target Hardening Self-Paced Learning training CD and is aimed at instructors who train new volunteer teachers.
Vacation Checklist Brochure: Never Give a Burglar an Even Break
This brochure tells how to keep a home safe while the occupants are away, including what to do the day before leaving and the day of departure.
Vacation Checklist Brochure: Never Give a Burglar an Even Break (Espanol)
This Spanish-language brochure tells how to keep a home safe while the occupants are away, including what to do the day before leaving and the day of departure.
