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A few tips to keep you safe

• Avoid walking alone after dark.

• Keep to busy, well lit roads and try to look confident even if you don’t feel it.

• If you think you are being followed, cross the road and keep walking. If it continues head for a busy area or lighted house to ask for help.

• Get a personal attack alarm and carry it in your hand.

• Carry your bag close to you with the fastening next to your body, but if someone tries to get it, let it go.

• Keep your house keys in your pocket for easy access.

• When you go out, tell people what time you expect to arrive home.

• When out at night, get a taxi or someone you trust to take you home.

• Always sit in the back of the taxi.

• Don't be tempted to hitch a ride or accept a lift from someone you don’t know.

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Mobile Phone Safety

• Only make essential calls in the street. Using a mobile phone in a busy area advertises the fact that you have a piece of valuable property and while talking on the phone you are distracted and not aware of who might be watching you or who might be a potential thief. Use them out of public view and somewhere where you can see what it happening around you.

• Many mobile phones are stolen in places like pubs and nightclubs when they are left on a bar, table or on a nearby seat. Open handbags also prove tempting for thieves, as do carried rucksacks, coats left hanging on chairs and phones left unattended in vehicles and other places.

• Security mark your phone with a postcode and house number using an ultra-violet pen. The best place is underneath the battery near to the SIM card and on the back of the battery.
  A mobile phone can be identified through two numbers:
  
  1) The phone number unique to the SIM card.
  
  2) The IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) number which is unique to the phone handset.
  
  Currently when police take crime reports the SIM card number is recorded only. The victim then contacts their phone network provider. The policy is then to send a blocking signal out to the SIM card rendering it useless. Criminals have picked up on this and they discard the SIM card straightaway after stealing the phone. They are then left with a handset that can be sold on in a pub or to a local dealer who then only has to buy a legitimate SIM card and the phone is once again operational with no way of detection.
  
  However it is possible for any person to find out the IMEI number of a handset by putting the following code into the phone *#06# (star, hash, zero, six, hash). This means that if Police were to record the IMEI number then we would have a chance of detecting persons using stolen handsets.
  
  Police are now urging mobile phone users to key in the *#06# number and record their IMEI number so in the event of the phone being stolen the police have a chance of arresting a person who may subsequently use the handset. IMEI numbers will now be recorded by the Police and checked against suspected stolen mobile phones.

Drink Spiking

• Never accept a drink from someone you don't know

• Use a specially adapted cover for your glass or bottle

• Never leave your drink unattended

• Plan your night out if you can

• Appoint a drink watcher if you go to the toilet or off for a dance.

• Remember alcohol affects your reactions; you'll be less alert.

• Don't feel that soft drinks aren't spiked…they are!

• If you think for one moment that your drink has been tampered with, don't take a chance. Get another one.

• And remember, males also fall victim to this type of offence.
   

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