Personal Safety Tips For Citizens

We all like to feel safe and secure in our homes and activities.   It is important to know that each of us is responsible for our own personal safety, and the best defense is prevention.  To reduce the likelihood of being targeted by criminals, we need to use common sense, as well as thinking and acting wisely and responsibly.

Be aware of your surroundings, trust your instincts, and always have a plan.  Below are practical prevention measures that when used can improve personal safety in our homes, vehicles, and activities:

Prevention Measures:

Activity

• Have a friend join you in your activities when you can

• Tell someone where you are going and approximately when you will return

• When you’re out jogging or walking, leave your headsets at home

• ATM: choose one that is out in the open and well-lit

• Carry a cell phone at all times

Home

• Use deadbolt locks on all outside doors and install locks on your windows

• Install wide angle peepholes on your front door or have a window to see the porch

• Don’t open doors to someone you don’t know and aren’t expecting

• Trim shrubs to avoid providing hiding places, especially near doors and windows

• Install motion sensor or dusk-to-dawn lights outside your home

• Have a phone in your bedroom

At Night

• Park in well-lit areas

• Walk to car with a friend or ask for a store escort if you feel uneasy

• Have correct key ready in your hand before getting to your car

• Quickly check from afar under the car and behind the seat

• If someone is loitering nearby, get assistance

As a Motorist

• Drive with your vehicle doors locked

• Carry a cell phone

• In break-downs, stay in car with doors locked and call for assistance

• Being followed?  Call 911 with your location and stay on the line for further directions

Single Females

• Be aware and alert of your surroundings

• Don’t leave a social occasion with someone you just met or don’t know well

• Avoid isolating yourself, by not jogging alone or being alone in a laundry room

• Know your limitations, make sure the messages you are sending to men are clear

• Be careful of personal information you post on social networking sites, such as when you are going on vacation, your address, where you work, etc

• On a first date or blind date, arrive separately and at a public place, if you feel threatened or uncomfortable, you can leave

• Install an automatic timer to a lamp inside, so it is well-lit when arriving home late

Options if Confronted by an Attacker:

• Yelling transfers fear into anger, so yell and run away

• Pepper spray can be an affective tool, if used correctly and is ready when you need it.  Know the pros and cons of using pepper spray

• Consider taking a self-defense class

• Choosing weapons is a personal choice only you can determine; do the research to help you decide the best safety tool for you to use

The internet has a wealth of information on personal safety and self defense.

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Be aware while hiring Taxi.

I want to share a very bad exprience of mine with taxi driver .As i wanted to go to Ooty along with my family .So we have hired a taxi .We had fixed a price of 6.25 Rs per KM and 150 Rs per day allowance for 2 days.
This taxi driver told me that he have to pay Tamilnadu city entrance tax of 550 Rs.We have reached to Tax Naka on the way for Tamilnadu.I told to driver that i will come with you to pay entry tax.then he have told me that it is 550 rs .He also told me that if i come with him then Tax officer will charge more.I got some doubt and forcefully i went along with him to pay tax.when i ask for tax fee then the officer told me that it is 350 Rs.I got shocked that taxi driver have lied me.This taxi driver was not feeling shame and on the above he was telling that why i havnt paid him 200 rs more for tax.

After paying tax, we moved towards ooty.this guy a hahve taken us from long route to ooty to make his meter up.
On the way ,we have stopped the car near a side seen point and we have spent there 30 mins.During journey i was keep on tracing his Meter.So while comming back to taxi ,i again checked meter and shocked to see that it was showing 60 Km more than my previous reading of meter(this rascal have changed the meter reading as these peple have trick to change meter reading manuallly). I told him that about his faulty meter and he fought with me and told it is correct.
I had no options to do anything against him that point of time .So i just agreed about the meter reading with him.This taxi driver have taken more than 50% amount from me to fill petrol.While comming from ooty,he has stopped the car near a petrol bunk and again asked me to pay rest of money.I told himw that i will pay him rest of money once i reach to my destination(bangalore).That Rascal was fighting with me and abusing me in his language. Even he was trying to phyiscally fighting with me.Some how, my brother and my father stopped me and we had paid him money before reaching to bangalore.We paid him money becoz we were with whole family so we dinn't want to make suffer to other memebers of family.At last we have reached to banglore and this Rascal have again asked me to pay 150 Rs allowance per day for 4 days which made me shocked again as we have spent only 2 days in travelling.He have told me that 150 rs for 12 hrs each as we have fixed the prive of 150 per day.I again fought with him about this.As i ended with paying him whole money as this Rascal was knowing my home address in bangalore and i didnt want him to come to my home in my absence.As these taxi drivers always come in group and fight with you.Same case for Auto drivers in bangalore also.

So friends please beware from this kind of rascal taxi drivers.So always take taxi from Travel agency so that you can tell them about this cheating .

As being a middle calss people we can not make these Rascals as our enemy ,they can harm our family in our absence.

Be Aware of Part Time Jobs

Please be aware of part time jobs in bangalore ; Some people started posting of Part Time Jobs Ads in Website and they give appointment to come to their office and then they tell about Part Time Jobs and they ask for Joining Fee. They will explain such a way that you believe them and you give money too for Joining.
Once you joined again you need to refer people to join and then you will get some 100 rupess per person and they will get around 5000 to 10000 for joining.
See How they will make money by frauding People

Basic Safety Instructions

1. Assume full responsibility for self protection. Take a class in self-defense that includes the psychology of combat as well as the physical aspect.
2.  Have a cell phone handy. Travel only in familiar, well-lit, populated areas whenever possible. Ask for assistance when feeling uncomfortable about a particular situation, like walking to the car or returning to a hotel room alone.

3. Learn simple self-defense techniques that are easy to use. Hold your largest car key between the index and ring finger, turned vertically, when walking to a parked car. If attacked, punch at your assailant's eyes and face with the key blade protruding.

4. Be smart about avoiding danger. If confronted by a suspicious person shout "No." Carry a whistle and blow it loudly and often until someone responds. Call 100 immediately. Throw off would-be stalkers by acting unstable.

5. Be alert to your surroundings, the environment and those in it. Prepare to respond quickly to incapacitate an attacker and allow time to escape. Look out for neighborhood watch signage.

6. Pay attention to the intuitive ability that signals danger. Listen to the heightened sense of fight or flight; that's the body's means of self-preservation. Walk with confidence without stooping, cowering or looking fearfully over the shoulder.

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