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Public Safety Alert from the County Police

WARM WEATHER ALERT!!! What is meant by “Suspicious” SUSPICIOUS can be any person, act, event or situation that appears questionable. Anytime someone or something “just doesn’t seem right to YOU”, that’s when YOU should call the POLICE NON-EMERGENCY 301-279-8000 *Any stranger entering your neighbor’s unoccupied house could be a burglar *Anyone peeking into parked vehicles

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Your Neighborhood Watch Team Presents: Tips for Securing Your Car & Garage

Happy Holidays! Here are a few tips for securing your car and garage: Garages: Keep garage doors closed. Automatic garage doors offer extra security, but continue to use a physical lock on your garage door if you can. Keep controllers inside locked cars when parked in your garage. If you park outside of your garage,

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Your Neighborhood Watch Team Presents: Helpful Home Security Tips re Doors & Windows

Here are some safety tips regarding your doors and windows: – Use solid, not hollow, core doors for exteriorentrances. Doors should fit snugly inthe frame with the hinges on the inside. For doors with single bolt locks, use at least a one-inch dead bolt. – Put a dowel in the track of our sliding glass

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Your Neighborhood Watch Team Presents: Helpful Home Security Tips re Landscaping

Here are some home security tips relating to your landscaping: – Tall bushes or shrubs that hide your doors or windows from street view make it easier for burglars to break in without being observed. They also provide hiding places for tools and stolen property. Keep your bushes trimmed so that they don’t provide cover

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Your Neighborhood Watch Team Presents: Helpful Home Security Tips re indoor/outdoor Lighting

Here are a few helpful home security tips relating to your outdoor and indoor lighting: – Good outside lighting can be a deterrent to burglars. Light those areas that are accessible to potential burglars and visible to your neighbors, such as doors, windows and eaves. Any spotlights that you install should shine on those areas,

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Neighborhood Watch Meeting with Officer Gill Thursday May 10 7-8:30 p.m.

Dear Rock Creek Hills Neighbors: Please RSVP to [email protected] if you plan to attend. We invite all neighbors to the next the Rock Creek Hills Neighborhood Watch meeting on Thursday, May 10th at 7 – 8:30 pm at Eden Durbin’s house (3307 Wake Drive). Community Police Officer Denise Gill will join us to talk about

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