Having effective home security will protect you while you are at home, and your personal security needs to work in conjunction with your home security.
Personal security is important when walking, jogging, driving and even at home.
What would you do if followed or attacked whilst walking and how can you defend yourself if you were attacked inside the home.
There are a number of ways to protect oneself and each and every situation differs, there really are no hard and fast rules and it is up to the individual to evaluate the situation.
Many people fail to notice what is happening around them and do not realize that they are in imminent danger until it to late.
Often one will hear the victim say that the attacker appeared from nowhere.
This is because we are not tuned in or notice our surroundings.
The most important aspect is always to be aware of our surroundings.
When walking in a crowd, a mugger will often attempt to box you in or they may and try isolate you, when this happens the best action to take is to try enter a shop to escape the mugger.
This applies when driving, are we aware of the vehicles behind and next to us.
Most hijackings take place at or near the victims residence and having automated gates may assist in arriving home safely you could also activate your home alarm as this may help as well.
Criminals do not want to draw attention to themselves.
Your home alarm must be fitted with panic buttons that can be activated should you be confronted by intruders, and many people hide mace spray in strategic places inside the home.
If you are not aware of your surroundings then there is no chance to take action, you can arm yourself to the hilt failing to recognize the danger is the single biggest factor to surviving a criminal attack.