How to protect your home against criminals

We almost had a break-in at my new residence... it looks like the criminals did not proceed any further, when they saw we had electric fencing (or heard the clicking sounds)... I suspect the break-in happened during load shedding... before load shedding there wasn't that hole in the fence, after load shedding (the next morning), there was a hole in the fence!

My windows have burglar bars, and I lock my doors at all times :) I have forgotten my keys outside :(
 
What did Riaan Coetzee say that I didn't in that thread? :p

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He forgot dogs. And gravel strips/areas. And security lighting. And safety (smoke detectors and fire extinguishers). And Neighbourhood Watch. And sensored alarm in living areas when you have gone to sleep in most secure sleep area.
 
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Here some more from Dr Rudolpt Zunn from Unisa who interviewed convicted criminals

http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/you-are-not-safe-1.460176?ot=inmsa.ArticlePrintPageLayout.ot

Here's what to do to avoid becoming a victim
• Don't create a pattern. Patterns are very useful to criminals who keep your home under
observation and plan the attack long before they carry out their assault.
Vary the time you come home, leave for work, your routes and the time you turn your
security lights on and off
• Rather have a palisade fence than a wall as criminals do not like to be seen
• Have both large and small dogs. Small dogs are far more alert and wake up the larger
dogs when intruders enter• Keep bushes and shrubs cut back around your gates and walls
• As with hijackings be aware of vulnerable and weak spots around your home
• Lock your doors and windows at night and activate your alarm systems
• Report suspicious people to police and alert neighbours to suspicious movements and
people outside homes and on the street
• Know your neighbours' telephone numbers and contact numbers for the police
emergency centre and alarm company's control rooms
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http://www.bluesecurity.co.za/index...urity-tips/30-how-to-survive-an-armed-robbery

•Most attacks occur between 19:00 and midnight as people are relaxed, busy cooking or watching TV, and the security systems and beams are not activated. But robberies continue until 04:00 in the morning.
•(Given that they strike when alarm systems are switched off) Robbers do not regard alarm systems as a deterrent. Electric fences, closed-circuit TV (CCTV) and detection beams do deter robbers, however the biggest deterrent confirmed by robbers themselves, are small dogs that are kept inside the home.
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6 strand monitored and alarmed electric fence: check!
Solid brick wall below: check!
Extra galvanised spikes where pavement electrical box forms a potential entry stepladder: check!
CCTV with 25m night vision: "Check!
House alarm with passive in every room: Check!
Full warning signage on exterior wall face: Check!

Try me mother truckers!!
 
FlashSA said:
6 strand monitored and alarmed electric fence: check!
Solid brick wall below: check!
Extra galvanised spikes where pavement electrical box forms a potential entry stepladder: check!
CCTV with 25m night vision: "Check!
House alarm with passive in every room: Check!
Full warning signage on exterior wall face: Check!

Try me mother truckers!!
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So 2 layers? (CCTV is only useful if you awake and able to look at it if you hear something)
 
FlashSA said:
6 strand monitored and alarmed electric fence: check!
Solid brick wall below: check!
Extra galvanised spikes where pavement electrical box forms a potential entry stepladder: check!
CCTV with 25m night vision: "Check!
House alarm with passive in every room: Check!
Full warning signage on exterior wall face: Check!

Try me mother truckers!!
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pfft easy :p
 
Neighbours all around have waist high walls. Pretty sure they will leave me alone
 
FlashSA said:
Neighbours all around have waist high walls. Pretty sure they will leave me alone
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Yeah well, 2 layers are better than none I guess, still would suggest something in between those layers, like a dog or 2 or outside sensors for alarm (active when you are in home), dog/s bark/s or sensors warn you and you have a reason to look at the CCTV.
 
FlashSA said:
6 strand monitored and alarmed electric fence: check!
Solid brick wall below: check!
Extra galvanised spikes where pavement electrical box forms a potential entry stepladder: check!
CCTV with 25m night vision: "Check!
House alarm with passive in every room: Check!
Full warning signage on exterior wall face: Check!

Try me mother truckers!!
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supersunbird said:
So 2 layers? (CCTV is only useful if you awake and able to look at it if you hear something)
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I have a pretty similar setup. The night vision for me is not really to look at, but rather deter. That Red glow in the night is sure to make someone on the outside think twice.
 
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Best electric fence I ever installed is my two huge mixed breed dogs .... They are just itching for some clown to come in .......

The Jack Russell is the ref.
 
TEXTILE GUY said:
Best electric fence I ever installed is my two huge mixed breed dogs .... They are just itching for some clown to come in .......

The Jack Russell is the ref.
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How is it that one can keep dangerous dogs, yet one is not allowed by law to set traps?
 
I would add a few of these, to lure then into a false sense of security, and to add confusion:
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Followed by a few of these to give them a nasty surprise:
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Ptteet!... Thud Thud Thud.
 

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Space_Chief said:
How is it that one can keep dangerous dogs, yet one is not allowed by law to set traps?
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How is it by law that one can own a taxi and kill 16 - 32 at a time, but one is not allowed to set traps?

Our laws are strange indeed my friend......
 
Does anyone know if you can buy dummy PIRs? Just as extras?
 
TEXTILE GUY said:
How is it by law that one can own a taxi and kill 16 - 32 at a time, but one is not allowed to set traps?

Our laws are strange indeed my friend......
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Dogs are predators who defend their territory and master. It's their nature. Vehicles are forms of transport. Laws do state one has to drive them carefully and maintain them. Dogs, well one can try to control/train them but when it comes to strangers a dog can be less predictable than a properly set painful yet non-lethal trap.
 
In my area of Cape Town (South Peninsula) there are a lot of properties that have no fence at all. The houses that do have fences mostly only have waist-high fences. There is not a single house in my area that has an electric fence and we still manage to have a low crime rate, despite the presence of an informal settlement within 5km of us.
 
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