PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR HOME
Crime Prevention Advice
Keep yourself and your home safe with our leaflets containing helpful advice
Keep up-to-date with latest crime reports in your area
The best way to keep up-to-date with the latest crime in your community is to follow Merseyside Police on Facebook. They issue warnings when acts of crime are being committed in your area - such as burglaries - giving you time to take steps to protect your home or property.
CHECK OUT LOCAL CRIME STATISTICS
The below website shows an overview of the crime in your area, along with recent news stories and important information.
www.merseyside.police.uk/area/your-area
Some important things to remember.
- Try not to leave your house in darkness when you are not in. Having spoken with convicted burglars in the past, often a light showing in a house can be enough to deter a burglar from targeting your premises. Timers are a cheap and very effective way of ensuring lights can come on at a set time when you are out.
- Similarly leaving a radio or TV on whilst you are out can have the same effect.
- Secure any side gates to your house and do not leave any garden tools and other items around that can be used to gain entry.
- Keep any car keys you may have out of sight at night and safely put away, as well as keeping high value items out of sight, jewellery etc.
- Ultimately you need to make it as difficult as possible for the burglar and deter them from trying to get into your premises in the first place.
Another Facebook page to follow is CrimeWatch Wirral.
You can also get the latest reports from Merseyside Police on their Twitter account.
Join your local Neighbourhood Watch (or set one up if there isn't one!)
The Neighbourhood Watch scheme in the United Kingdom is a partnership intended to bring people together to make their communities safer. It involves the police, Community Safety departments of local authorities, other voluntary organisations and individuals and families who ostensibly want to make their neighbourhoods better places to live. It aims to help people protect themselves and their properties and to reduce the fear of crime by means of improved home security, greater vigilance, accurate reporting of suspicious incidents to the police and by fostering a community spirit.
Report Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour
The days of having policemen on every street corner are long gone. Police resources are stretched to the limit, but contacting them CAN still be a useful way of fighting crime or anti-social behaviour in your community. Modern policing relies on citizens reporting crime - if they don't know it is happening, they can't be blamed for doing nothing about it. EVERY reported crime is recorded on a database, and if they have officers available and not dealing with more urgent incidents, they will send them round. If several reports are made in your area about particular types of crime, Merseyside Police can put extra resources in to tackle it....but those reports can only come from YOU.
The most common way to contact Merseyside Police in non urgent or non life-threatening situations is to ring 101. However, the most effective way of contacting them is online through the Merseyside Police website.