At the end of the night, you pull out the plug to the TV or stereo, turn out the lights and lock the doors, then head to bed knowing that you are safe within your home. Or are you? In times of economic decline, it is imperative that you get your home security right! As opportunistic thieves will only be to happy to cash in on your mistakes.
There is a simple test, ask yourself, “do you feel safe day and night while you are in your own home?” We all know the answer should be yes, but with most people, if they are honest with themselves the answer will be no, or it could be better.
So how can you feel safe while in your own home?
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When we book our annual holidays we automatically take a ‘back seat’ when it comes to personal protection & security and tend to let the hotels own internal security take over. Tourists all over the world seem to take the “it will never happen to me” attitude when on foreign shores. Just because you are on holiday or on a business trip doesn’t mean you have to let your guard down.
Business and home alarms are there to do a job, that is to alert the owners or passers-by that someone is trying to gain access to the premises unwontedly. They are designed for that purpose, but to be honest how many people while out at the weekend hear the constant ‘bleeping’ and ‘screeching’ of home and business alarms and no-one even blinking an eyelid? Alarms that are constantly being set off falsely have very little or no protection to the building they are meant to be protecting.
In Britain today a growing trend is for people to set up their own business from home, using their garages and sheds as a workshop or storage space. Thieves love this as many people simply forget to protect their stock by fitting even a simple 
Most homeowners and employers will spend money on Hi-Tec alarm systems, 
In a perfect world we would not have to worry about personal protection, we could go around doing our daily business without the worry of someone infringing our own personal space. However, reality is a million miles from Utopia. Although, reports suggest, many areas of crime are down, street theft is still on the increase. Street theft can often include someone stealing your mobile phone, I-Pod, handbag, purse, wallet or actual physical attacks against you.
During the month of December 2009 the Church of England was in an uproar as one of its Reverends was giving a sermon at Sunday Service teaching us that during times of economic depression it was ok to steal products from shops – so long as they were taken from large national stores rather than small family owned shops and businesses. 
With the New Year now here and the temperature refusing to rise above zero, daring to venture outside can become an impossible task especially for the elderly. In-fact many will be sitting in their homes watching television cuddled up on the couch with the halogen heater burning in the corner to keep the room nice and warm. Unfortunately, a lot of older people don’t have these heaters and rely on the old bar type heaters, gas fires or an open fire instead. 
