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The Department of Public Safety led by Maria Dolores Carrasco reports that due to some situations that have occurred in the area in recent days is appropriate to take into account some general tips especially for older people who are more prone to accidents or be victims of crime and therefore the people around them should pay special attention to:
-Do not open the door of his house to strangers, installation of gas, electricity, beggars, vendors.
Generally, scammers posing as these people, and take advantage of the elderly living alone.
-Do not put much money in your home, and you have, you are in a safe place, which is not easy to find.
The same consideration must be taken with the jewelry, which usually are left in the drawers of the bedroom, easy access.
- Try not to talk to strangers.
The loneliness leads them on many occasions, to talk to strangers, making certain confessions about their way of life, which is very interested who will take advantage of a helpless, as well as theft of personal items at that time.
- Do not give out your personal information.
No one has to know your financial situation and if you live alone or with others.
- Do not carry a lot of money.
Try not to go alone to collect.
The portfolio carry it in an inside pocket, and purse, always closed, over the shoulder, over the shoulder, with the handle cross on the chest.
- Beware of phone calls from strangers.
Do not give any of your personal information, or family.
- Be wary of deals that seem too good to be true.
Typically these are scams.
- In any incident of this type, emergency call 112, or their immediate family, to denounce these facts, being of great help to the police in their work against these crimes.
It must be stressed that relatives caring for the elderly, have to implement these measures, and inculcate them in the best way for the elderly, to ensure the safety of these people who, because of age and physical and mental are helpless and defenseless people, criminals target.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín
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