Simple Holiday Safety Tips
Holidays are a time to relax and enjoy your time with family and friends. It's also a time where criminals are desperate and try to take advantage of unsuspecting victims. Thanks to law enforcement agencies across the country, here are a few helpful tips they recommend on how to guard yourself and your family from would be thieves this holiday season.
* During the holidays thefts go up. Delivered packages being stolen is one of the biggest problems. Some criminals follow delivery trucks.
* Please have someone home for the delivery or make other arrangements. Consider mailing packages to your office to avoid theft of items left at your doorstep.
* Don't share your holiday plans, especially on social media.
* Don't show off your gifts on social media or display them in front of a window at your home.
* A stack of mail in the mailbox, papers in the driveway and trash cans left