Burglaries; Why Our Homes Need Home Safes

The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program estimated burglaries accounted for 23.6% of property crimes and of those, burglaries of residential properties accounted for 72.6% of all burglary offences. Home safes can and do protect your valuables from burglars. The estimated loss to burglaries is $4.6 billion per annum. Homes with home safes installed are potentially secured against the average dollar loss per burglary of $2,096. Another sobering reason for installing home safes is that only 12.5% of burglary offences are cleared nationally.

Home Safes are a Deterrent

Typically, most burglaries occur in daytime, take only a couple of minutes and are opportunistic. For a burglar speed and opportunity are all-important and are deterred when home safes are installed. The items most frequently stolen, cash, firearms, jewellery, electronics and silverware are items easily protected by installing home safes. Burglars that are more sophisticated are targeting identity documents so in these times of identity theft securing personal papers in home safes is becoming a priority.

Home Safes Come in a Range of Sizes

Home safes are more specialized, more affordable and come with a range of technical specifications, sizes and features to suit all homes. Good home safes will offer fire, burglary, water and impact protection. Depending on what you are protecting home safes fall into a number of categories – fireproof home safes, fireproof burglary safes, data safes, gun safes, wall safes and biometric safes.

The HS one-hour UL fireproof home safes range has been built for strength to deter burglars, offers 1-hour fire protection in case of fire and for appearance. The HD20 fire resistant laptop safe, the RPO RG fireproof gunsafes and the HZ53 biometric safe are good examples of specialized home safes.