Post by account_disabled on Mar 13, 2024 23:49:43 GMT -7
With the arrival of summer, home robberies increase exponentially as we can see in the crime data that the Ministry of the Interior publishes , in which we see a clear increase in the number of robberies with force in homes constant in the 3rd quarter of each year. The latest data available is for 2022, based on which we have prepared a simple map that reflects the number of home burglaries that occurred last year by autonomous community and the percentage that that community represents with respect to the total of robberies with force in homes that occurred in our country, which were a total of 238,857. It is very important, therefore, for this summer, and, above all, if we are going to leave our habitual residence for long stays, to have, of course, good home insurance that broadly covers this type of loss due to theft, looting or theft and, almost as important, take into account a series of tips to avoid theft at home this summer.
How to prevent theft at home this summer -Close with lime and stone : As this expression says, it comes from when in the past, in the towns, in the event of a prolonged absence of the owner of the house, the doors and windows of the house were walled up with walls made of stones and plastered with lime. , before going on vacation we must close the main door with all the turns of the key, in addition to making sure to leave all the windows or accesses that the house may have BYB Directory closed. In this sense, it is significant to know the difference between a robbery (when there is violence, for example, a window is broken or a lock is forced) and a theft (when there is no violence, for example, we have left a window open and therefore thieves have entered), since these “mistakes” can considerably affect the compensation contemplated by home insurance.
Avoid publications on social networks : One of the aspects that the Police and Civil Guard insist on most, and this is reflected in the recommendations they publish at the beginning of the “high season of cacos”, is that we avoid the publication and dissemination of our vacation on social networks, leaving the same for our return, already at home. – Use the technique of the child from Home Alone : Like in that successful movie from the nineties in which a family forgot their child at home during the Christmas holidays, and the child put on a real simulation show to make the children think. thieves that the house was not empty, we can ask a trusted neighbor or family member to raise and lower the blinds from time to time, to collect our mail from the mailbox, to turn on the lights, etc.
How to prevent theft at home this summer -Close with lime and stone : As this expression says, it comes from when in the past, in the towns, in the event of a prolonged absence of the owner of the house, the doors and windows of the house were walled up with walls made of stones and plastered with lime. , before going on vacation we must close the main door with all the turns of the key, in addition to making sure to leave all the windows or accesses that the house may have BYB Directory closed. In this sense, it is significant to know the difference between a robbery (when there is violence, for example, a window is broken or a lock is forced) and a theft (when there is no violence, for example, we have left a window open and therefore thieves have entered), since these “mistakes” can considerably affect the compensation contemplated by home insurance.
Avoid publications on social networks : One of the aspects that the Police and Civil Guard insist on most, and this is reflected in the recommendations they publish at the beginning of the “high season of cacos”, is that we avoid the publication and dissemination of our vacation on social networks, leaving the same for our return, already at home. – Use the technique of the child from Home Alone : Like in that successful movie from the nineties in which a family forgot their child at home during the Christmas holidays, and the child put on a real simulation show to make the children think. thieves that the house was not empty, we can ask a trusted neighbor or family member to raise and lower the blinds from time to time, to collect our mail from the mailbox, to turn on the lights, etc.