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Safety At Home

• Replace or rekey locks when you move into a new home or apartment. Install a door viewer and a one-inch deadbolt lock and use them. Look before opening your door to anyone.
  
  
• Keep doors locked at all times and instruct children to never open the door to strangers.
  
  
• Require all strangers to show identification. If you have not called for a repairman, don't let one inside. Leave him waiting outside and call his place of business to verify his reason for being in your area.
  
  
• Do not let a stranger inside your home to use the phone; make the call for him.
  
  
• Never admit that you are home alone.
  
  
• Women living alone should use only initials on mailboxes and in telephone listings.
  
  
• Leave outside lights on at night and keep lights on in more than one room.
  
  
• If you receive an obscene phone call, do not react — just hang up. If the calls keep coming, notify the police.