You may want to believe that if your home is invaded, that is the one time and it will never happen again. After all, after criminal has gotten away with robbing your house, why would he come back to do it again and risk getting caught? Your reliable AJ’s locksmiths Sans Souci want you to know, however, that repeat burglaries are actually extremely common. Once a criminal has robbed your home and knows of the items that are available for the taking he will be extremely tempted to come back and get the things that he didn’t on his first run, as well as steal the replacements of the items if you did steal the first time.
Keeping this in mind, it is very important to reestablish your home security after a break in. Our Sans Souci24 hour emergency locksmiths offers these recommendations for protecting your home against a repeat robbery:
- Immediately after the break-in, replace your locks. Regardless of how the invaders entered your home, it is important that your place all of the locks in your doors in case the key was stolen without your knowledge, or the locks were investigated for how easily they could be picked so this information could be used later.
- Install new locks that add a layer of security that may be unexpected, such as a floor lock or bolt lock that attaches the top of the door frame to the door.
- Change the passcode for your alarm system, including the alert word.
- Change where you hide your spare key. Make sure that it is somewhere discreet but accessible.
- Be very careful about advertising any of the new items that you have purchased. Don’t throw the boxes away on the side of the road or leave the items sitting in your car for a long period of time.
