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When you leave on vacation, go to work, or just leave for an hour or two, is your house easy access to burglars or other intruders? There are some easy steps to follow to keep unwanted visitors from making entry to your house and help keep you from becoming a victim. Your Indiana State Police offers the following tips to curb the opportunity of criminals to make you a target.

• Lock your doors. That includes basement, side, and front door. Be sure your garage door is down and locked. Don’t make it easy for an intruder to get in. Do not broadcast you are leaving on a certain date and returning on a certain date.

• Have motion lights installed around the perimeter of the home. Especially in front of doors and windows. That way if someone is at the door you can see them at night.

• Make your home look like someone is there. Put lights inside and outside the home on timers to come on at dusk and go off at your regular time you retire for the evening. Put your radio or TV on a timer to go on and off each night. Do not set up your voicemail machine to give the date when you are gone and the date when you will return.

• Stop your mail and newspaper delivery. Newspapers and mail are a big clue you are gone. Stop delivery or have someone get your mail daily.

• Have someone check your house on a daily basis while you are gone. Be sure they check doors and windows. Check randomly each day. Start a neighborhood watch program. Become a good neighbor while others are away. Add an alarm system to your home.

Helping Police Solve the Crime

• Do Not Enter Your Home: Let the police check the house and collect evidence to help in solving the crime. Do not walk around the house or pick up anything in the yard.

• Call the Police: Let the police check the home in case someone is still inside. Call from a cell phone or a neighbor’s home.

• Write down the license plate, description of the vehicle, and description of the possible suspects leaving the home. Do not pursue the vehicle. Call 911 and give a detailed description and the route of travel.