Security for your home is important all year round but especially at Christmas. Criminals know that lots of people have valuables in their homes in the run up to Christmas that they may be intending on giving as Christmas presents. For this reason, they often choose this time of year to target homes. People have even been broken in to on Christmas eve and present stolen, leaving very devastated children in the morning.

There are a number of steps that you can take to try and ensure that you protect your home. Firstly never go out of the home without locking all the doors and windows. Even if you are only popping up to the local shop, that is often plenty of time for a thief to enter your home and take what they want. You should also lock the door when you are in the home as unfortunately people do not just get broken in to whilst their homes are empty.

Having a CCTV system installed can not only catch criminals in the act but can also be a deterrent to put criminals off to start with. There are many different types of CCTV systems that you can choose from starting from around £50 for one IP camera up to a couple of thousand for a full system with motion detectors.