Personal Safety Tips

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Personal Safety Tips:

  • You are your own best protection.
  • Keep your door locked at all times.  Don’t unlock the door for strangers. Keep first-floor windows locked.
  • Walk in well-lit areas and stay near the curb, away from alleys, entry ways and bushes where someone could be hiding.
  • Do not walk or jog alone after dark.
  • Avoid short cuts.  Walk where there are other people present.
  • Do not hitchhike or accept rides from strangers.  If a driver asks
    you for directions, stay far enough away so that you cannot be pulled
    into the car.  Do not pick up strangers.
  • If you are being followed when walking, change directions, vary
    speed.  Go to a well-lit area where there are other people.  If followed
    by someone in a car, turn and walk in the other direction.  Record the
    license number.
  • Park your car in a well-lit area and lock the doors.