Advise on protection from thieves during summer holidays

The valuables are stolen, the furniture is damaged, and there's been a big mess.

So nobody wants to find his apartment or home like this when he gets back from his summer vacation. Schaffhausen police give advice on how to protect themselves from thieves for the next summer vacation.

Police Schaffhausen recommends the following rules of behavior to ensure that there will be no unpleasant surprises when you return home.

Pray to someone to check your home or home regularly. These include emptying mail boxes, opening windows, and turning on lights in the evening. So the house or residence to impress that it is not empty broadcasts Albinfo.ch.

If you do not have someone who can care for this, cut off your mail distribution and install the time limit for internal lighting, radio, or television.

Secure the windows, doors, side entrances, basement windows and the light axes of your house or apartment (also in the nyhm% rooms K3ABse and garages. Take advantage of the free counseling service provided by a security consultant for your police in Schaffhausen.

Deposit valuables and documents in the safe box or secure bank.

Do not disclose your absence with notes on the front door, through messages in the response device, or through social networking messages, such as Facebook.

Are you home? Do not hesitate to report suspicious perceptions immediately via police emergency phone 117. In particular, for strangers who are suspicious in the vicinity of the house or neighborhood, driving unknown vehicles “looking for” through the neighborhood or listening to unusual noises in the apartment and neighborhoods.