Suspicious Characters
There are several ways you can help in preventing crimes and deterring crimes, would be assailants. The first way is to identify the criminal before the crime is committed. Prior to most criminal act, the criminal will usually inspect a potential target to determine the level of security, locations to gain entry and the avenue of escape. To do this they will often visit the target several times. You should be alert for anyone who appears to show an unusual or repeated interest in your area/ community.
Behavior to look for includes:
- Cars driving at night with their light off near residence/ facilities.
- Cars driving up and down the same street or around the perimeter of facilities/ installations.
- Persons sitting in parked cars observing residence/ facilities vehicles containing one or more parked at unusual hors.
- Persons standing and staring at facilities, individuals loitering around school, secluded areas or on the street.
- Persons walking up or down the street or around un-occupied residence. Strangers entering your neighbour house when it is unoccupied. Vehicles being loaded with valuables in front of unoccupied houses.
- Persons videotaping or photographing facilities/ residences.
If you see any of the above activities do not attempt to stop or detain the individuals. However, you should make note of any information that would be useful to the authorities. Particularly important are descriptions of vehicles, license number and detailed physical description of the individuals. When trying to describe a person to the authorities try to identify race, sex, age, height, weight, build, complexion, hair, eye, clothing and identified such as tattoos, scars or other peculiarities, look for easily spotted marks or physical characteristics such as glasses, a limb, loss or impairment of a limb or facial twitches. Listen for an accent repeated use of certain words or phases, poor grammar or just nervousness. Remember, the detail you provide could be the information that stops a crime from happening.
Always report a crime even an attempt no matter how insignificant and whether or not you personally lost anything. Help prevent crime.
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