Avoid Home Invasion

Avoiding Home Invasion - 10 Tips on Avoiding Home Invasion!

For about the last decade or so now in North America, home invasion burglaries have been increasing at alarming rates. While the police regard these as burglaries, they generally are much more violent than a regular break and enter home burglary.

Since there are no specific charges in the Criminal Code as “home invasion”, the actual statistics, and prevalence of home invasions are hard to quantify. A problem here is too, that without a clear picture of how real the risk of these crimes happening in your area are, it is hard to inform the public against them.

Typical Home Invaders

The home invader works in many ways, quite opposite to the common home burglar. Where the burglar commonly will pick homes he knows are likely to not be occupied, the home invader is looking for a home with the residents at home. In most cases, this is because the criminal feels that backed by the threats of immediate violence, they could gain information from the residents, like where valuables are stored, banking information, “PIN numbers”, etc. The common burglar invariably works in the daytime, when people are at work — between 9am and 5 pm, while most home invasions occur between 6pm and 6am. Most home invaders are armed, and carry restraining utilities, such as ropes and duct tape.

Home invaders will typically try to use a ploy to get the unsuspecting resident to open the door, upon which they will force their way in. It is usual that the ploy can involve a young girl to ring the doorbell,while her accomplices wait at the side of the door — just out of reach of the peephole.

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