How to secure your homes during ‘Undas’ | Inquirer News

How to secure your homes during ‘Undas’

By: - Reporter / @NCorralesINQ
/ 09:04 AM October 31, 2014

MANILA, Philippines- To ensure safety and security, the Philippine National Police (PNP) has issued safety tips for families leaving their homes to visit their departed loved ones in cemeteries this All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days.

In an infographic posted by the PNP in its Twitter account, the public was advised to secure their homes before leaving.

home security tips pnp

The PNP reminds everyone to:

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  • not let many people know that they are leaving their homes unattended.
  • make sure that their doors are locked.
  • make sure that their appliances unplugged.
  • as much as possible, use burglar alarms.
  • close their curtains to prevent outsiders from peeking in to their homes.
  • ask a trusted neighbor or friend to watch over their property.

Staring Thursday, October 30, the PNP has gone on full alert and deployed additional 41, 602 policemen nationwide as part of its “Ligtas Undas” security plan.

The PNP also created “neighborhood watch groups” in Metro Manila composed of police and barangay (village) authorities to provide security to homes left unattended by vacationing residents.

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Thousands of Filipinos are expected to flock to the province and to cemeteries to remember their departed love ones this “Undas.”

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