Crime Prevention Tips
- Bicycle Safety: How to ride safely, and follow the laws regarding bicycles.
- Child Safety: How to keep your children safe.
- Common Property Crimes: trespassing, illegal dumping and other disturbances
- Crime Prevention Programs offered by the Monroe County Sheriff's Office
- Domestic Abuse: prevention, and reaction strategies
- Do-it-yourself Security Survey for your home
- Door to Door Safety: Tips to keep children safe
- Financial Safety and Security. How to keep your valuables safe; How to avoid becoming a victim of a telephone scam, or con artist
- Firearms Safety
- Holiday and Vacation Safety Tips
- Home Safety: How to protect yourself from burglary; using dogs and alarm systems as crime deterrents; what to do if you become a victim of a burglary; fire safety
- How to avoid vehicle related crime, and what to do if you break down on the highway
- How to protect yourself from violent crime, and strategies for coping with it if it happens to you
- Internet Safety
- Internet Fraud
- Identity Theft
- Poison: how to prevent accidental poisonings, and what to do if it happens anyway
- Running and Walking Safety: Tips for staying safe while you exercise
- Sexual Assault: prevention and reaction strategies
- What to expect when you call 911
Crime Prevention brochures (in PDF format):
For more information, you may check the National Crime Prevention Council, WePrevent.org , FEMA's home page, the National Criminal Justice Reference Service, the National Office for Victims of Crimes, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, all of which offer many sources of crime prevention information, or you may contact the Community Relations Division at (305)292-7116. You may also send e-mail to the Asst. Director of Community Relations, Becky Herrin at beckyherrin@keysso.net.
