If you realize that you have suffered a theft in your home, the first thing to do is to call the police.
If on returning home you realize that the entrance door or another of the access points of your home has been forced, you must immediately call the Police or Carabinieri and wait for their arrival before entering the house.
You do not have to enter the house because there may be someone still inside and entering would mean blocking his only way out.
The best thing to do is to wait for the police and put yourself in a place where it is possible not to lose sight of the house without being seen.
In this way, if there is still a thief inside the house, you can see him and describe him to the agents, trying to memorize as many details as possible: the distinctive signs of the face, the physical build, the clothing, the model and the license plate of the car in which he were to drive away, perhaps taking a photo of him with his mobile phone without being seen. All these details will be useful for investigations especially if the thief is already known by the police.
It is very important not to touch anything to avoid contaminating the scene of the theft, the police will, especially on drawer knobs, cabinet doors and door handles, take fingerprints if the thieves are already registered.
Another thing to do immediately is to compile a detailed list with all the valuables and non-valuables that have been stolen from you to be handed over to the police. In most cases, thieves try to get rid of the stolen goods as soon as possible, giving it to fences who then put it back on the market, even online. Making an updated list of the precious objects in the house in advance, with the related documents certifying their authenticity, is essential to offer agents all the information useful for their discovery.
When the police arrive, after having ascertained the theft, they will ask you questions to better understand the dynamics of the theft and will draw up a report with the list of stolen objects and all the information you have given them. It is good use, before signing it and having a copy delivered to you, reread it and check that it is completely correct because that will be the official document of the burglary suffered. If among the stolen objects there are also identity documents, ATMs, credit cards, check books and mobile phones, you must notify the relevant offices and block them.
After completing this bureaucratic part, you will need to repair the damage suffered and restore the safety of the house.
Finally you will have to warn the neighbors of the theft immediately so as to alert them of the danger and agree with them the common defense measures for the outside.
Taking preventive action is the best way to reduce the chances of thieves entering your home. First of all you have to think about securing the critical access points of your home.
Prevention must start from the outside of the house, illuminating the dark areas near the access points: gutters, balconies, windows on the ground floor. You might think about installing photocells that are activated in front of the garden door or in front of the gate. The fact remains that the dark is the best friend of thieves.
If you have a garden with trees, it is important that they do not hold onto balconies and windows. The external light meters must not be accessible by anyone, because thieves can cut the light wires and also disable the alarm.
After securing the outside, you have to reinforce the entrances to the house, starting with the armor plating of the entrance door which should always be locked even when you are inside.
Thieves just need a credit card or a fidelity card to open armored doors that are not locked. Avoid hiding spare keys outside the house and never under the doormat!
Putting the railings on the balconies and windows , pulling down the shutters and equipping them with the anti-lifting block are fundamental measures even when you go out for a short time.
It is important not to leave the keys in the parked car. Stealing the keys from the car along with the documents where there is also the address is a breeze.
When you leave the house unattended for longer, seek the cooperation of your neighbors, ask them to empty the mailbox and leave them a set of keys in case they need to intervene in an emergency.
Thieves should never have the feeling that the house is left unattended for a long time, so in addition to raiding neighbors, if you have the possibility, put an on timer on the radio or TV system so that the devices turn on during the day.
Don't tell your travels in real time on social media. It sounds silly, but it would not be the first time that we have inadvertently given information to thieves without realizing it. Always keep the list of valuables in the house up to date. You'll need it to speed up the investigation, in the unfortunate case of theft.
Even the "profession" of the thief in recent years has seen a sort of specialization. Over the years, apartment rats have learned new techniques that have allowed them to enter homes more and more easily. For this reason, making a preventive analysis of the criticalities of the house is the first thing to do to rationalize the security systems to be installed.
To protect the entrances from the windows, railings remain the best solutions. Windowo offers the Blindy window grille , of compact and sturdy structure, whose main feature is that it can be installed on any window because it can be adjusted in width, has a forged stud on the post, is finished with black cataphoresis anti-rust treatment and is equipped with impenetrable anti-burglary screws. Attention, the grates must not serve as a foothold to go up to the upper floors.
The security door is certainly an excellent decision to make, pay attention to the type of door and key. Armored doors can be removed from the outside. To prevent thieves from entering from above it is useful to install barriers, also excellent for balconies, and bollards for gutters.
To avoid entrances from balconies, balconies and terraces, Windowo offers a rainbow anti-intrusion barrier Grimpo built in metal. Very simple to fix on a wall or on a metal structure and treated with epoxy paint therefore resistant to atmospheric agents.
Furthermore, among the Windowo online security systems you can also find the Grimpo barrier with spikes, excellent for cornices and surrounding walls but which can also be used for balconies. This barrier is a perfect obstacle against ascent theft, when thieves want to enter the house by climbing. It is a modular barrier to cover any type of surface area, it is made of steel and is also treated with epoxy paint.
If you have valuable items in your home such as paintings, silverware, porcelain and jewelry, you should equip your home with a safe. Windowo offers many solutions of safes for online wall, mobile and floor of different sizes, type of closure and price.
Alongside all these so-called passive protections, you should install an alarm system that may also be connected to a security institute.
There are also economic solutions to prevent thieves from entering your home , you don't necessarily have to spend a lot of money to have the protection that protects you from unpleasant intrusions. The market offers such solutions to make you live peacefully even without spending a lot.
Usually the thieves before entering a house, they take up positions, study the habits of the family members and look for the critical issues of the apartment, so as to be able to organize their action plan.
Your aim must be to prevent their plans by strengthening the access points of your home and securing them. The first step is to install a good security system and the market also offers solutions with advantageous value for money.
Among these, the peripheral alarm systems that also protect the outside of the house and the burglar-proof bars for the armouring of doors and windows are very useful systems for the prevention of thefts. In this regard, Windowo offers two solutions.
The first solution is the Blindy anti-burglary bar for the armouring of doors and windows. Among its main features is that of being extensible so it can also be mounted on doors and windows that do not have standard sizes. Also suitable for double-leaf windows which are chronically the weakest ones.
Blindy burglar-proof bar is a bar that can be easily inserted and removed whenever you want and is particularly effective against breaking into the central part of shutters, shutters and French windows.
The Blindy bar is available in three sizes, all extendable: from 50 cm to 80 cm; from 70 cm to 120 cm; from 100 cm to 180 cm.
The second solution offered by Windowo is the Giroblok telescopic anti-burglary bar, ideal for shutters and shutters. Giroblok is composed of a telescopic steel tube that is inserted on metal brackets that are mounted on the shutters or on the shutters and which are stretched up to the wall with two support plates.
Also extendable, the Giroblok bar is on sale in three sizes, from 550 to 800 mm, from 750 to 1200 mm and from 1050 to 1800 mm, in 2 colors a glossy green RAL 6005 and a semi-glossy black RAL 9005 and has supplied with a safety key.
Finally, to prevent thieves from entering the house from pipes and gutters, Windowo offers Grimpo bollards that are installed on pipes outside the house such as downspouts and gas pipes. Installation is very simple because the bollard collar is fixed to the pipe with two screws and its tips become a deterrent to theft on the way up.
The Grimpo bollard , available in various diameters, from 33, 48, 60, 80, 100 and 120 mm, and in models with and without spikes, it is made of steel and treated with epoxy paint therefore resistant to atmospheric agents; with its use you do not risk piercing the downspouts and therefore having infiltrations.
You can use it not only on pipes but also to protect balconies, windows and terraces and, if you have anti-theft sirens or external cameras, you can use the Grimpo bollard for those too.
The latest novelty in terms of Grimpo bollards is the Grimpo K which can be installed on both round and square downspouts and gutters and has two characteristics: it is yellow in color and therefore very visible from afar and at night, to discourage thieves and has vertical anti-intrusion bars with steel tips that prevent the attacker from clinging to the pipe. Installed near balconies and windows, the Grimpo K has a height of 740 mm and is available in the round version with diameters 33/48/60/80/100/120 mm and in the square version with diameters 80/100 / 120 mm, it is therefore adaptable to any type of situation.
In short, let's say that if the thieves have specialized, the security systems have also come a long way, going well beyond the security door and the alarm and making security available for all budgets.
I'm Elia Caneppele, author of this article and founder of Windowo, the Italian shop specialising in the online sale of products for windows. My speciality is doing SEO for ecommerce and blogs, which, in simple terms, means getting people to find us on the Internet.
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