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Facts about home security: Is your house a target?

A major problem is that up to 99% of these calls tend to be false alarms. Police in many parts of the country have become jaded and wait often as long as an hour to respond. They also levy fines if you send in too many false alarms.

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To insure against false alarms, you have to make sure your system is properly installed and maintained. When an alarm sounds when you are home, you have to investigate it and make sure that a call to police is actually needed.

Keep in mind that your home security system uses your phone line to call the monitoring company. If you do not have a cell phone available, you may have no way of calling for help during an emergency while your phone is busy calling the monitoring company. Many burglars simply cut the outside phone line before entering a home. To get around these problems, some people install more than one phone line.

The more elaborate systems allow the homeowner to go on a closed circuit television screen and see what is happening in the place where the alarm was sounded. You can even do this when you are not at home via your computer screen. Many parents use these systems to monitor their children's activities when their children are home alone. Some of these systems also allow the homeowner to control heat, light and other functions even when not at home.

Many homeowners also install systems that include heat, smoke and carbon dioxide detectors, which are also connected to the monitoring company. Heat detectors are often placed in attics, furnace rooms and kitchens, where heat can build up before smoke.

Police departments advise homeowners to rely on common sense as well as home security systems by using tips like these:

• Cut down any shrubbery that makes it too easy for burglars to break into your home undetected. Thieves particularly like for back doors that are beyond the view of neighbors and traffic.
  
  
• Thieves like windows on doors that they can smash and then reach through to unlock. Buy heavy doors without windows for every entry way and use deadbolt locks on every door.
  
  
• Dogs are not necessarily deterrents because professional thieves will stop them by using food or poison. However, an indoor dog is more of a problem to thieves than one that is kept outside.
  
  
• Keep your house locked up at all times. Lock the garage.
  
  
• When you go on vacation, have someone pick up your mail and newspapers.
  
  
• Participate in your local Neighborhood Watch Association.

These simple precautions along with your home security system will help prevent your home from being robbed.

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