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Leaving home for a period of time, taking a well-deserved vacation?

Let the Newark Police Department know your plans. RAVEN volunteers and police officers, as time permits, will drive by your home keeping an eye out for you while you are away. There is no cost to you for this service, just click on the link below complete the form and submit. The more detailed the information you provide, the easier it is for us to determine if anything is amiss, or to contact you in an emergency should the need arise.

Click here to register your home for a Vacation House Check:

http://www.newark.org/departments/police/community-engagement/vacation-house-emergency-information/

Vacation home security tips:

• An empty house is a tempting target for a burglar so make sure you do your best to have your home look occupied while you are away.
• Find a trusted friend or neighbor to watch your house. Give them your contact information in case they need to get a hold of you.
• Never broadcast your travel plans on a community email group, blog, Facebook, or other social networking site and remember if you check-in on foursquare or Facebook, everyone knows you aren't home!
• Install good locks on the doors and windows and use them.
• Engrave your valuables with your phone number and driver license number.
• Never leave a house key hidden outside of your home. If it is hidden in a pot, under the mat, beneath a rock or in a fake rock someone else may find it and enter your home while you are away.
• Stop all deliveries or arrange for someone to pick up your mail, newspapers, and packages.
• Arrange for someone to mow your lawn and maintain the yard while you are away. This keeps your home looking lived in.
• Place your inside lights and a radio on timers so that they go on and off, periodically in the evening hours.
• Hide your garbage cans out of sight. If your garbage cans are empty when everyone else’s are full, it is a sign that you are not at home.
• Turn the ringer on your telephone down low or off so that people outside of your home will not hear the phone ringing and going unanswered.
• Be sure to close and lock the garage door too. When possible have a friend or family member park a car in your driveway occasionally so that it looks like someone is still at home.
• Leave your blinds and drapes in their normal position on second floor windows (closed on ground level so no one can look inside and view an empty home).

Most homes can be made relatively safe from entry by burglars. Often this can be done at little or no cost, while utilizing materials already available around the house. For more crime prevention information or arrange a visit your residence (at no cost to you) to make recommendations for improving security measures, please contact the Community Engagement staff at 510-578-4209.

Remember; when you return home if it looks like someone has entered your home don’t go inside! Instead use a cell phone, go to a neighbor’s house or other safe location to contact the police. Let the police check the home before you go inside.

Newark Police Department In-Progress Emergency # 9-1-1

Newark Police Department Non-Emergency # 510/578-4237.