Keeping safe

• Consider contacting your local council to assist with security
• Carry a panic alarm
• Install security systems including additional locks, burglar alarms etc.
• Install smoke detectors and fire extinguishers for each floor of your house
• Install an outside lighting system that lights up when a person comes near the house
• Inform neighbours/family that your partner no longer lives with you, and/or show a picture of your partner so that they can inform you if they see him near your home and/or contact the police
• Ask for an unlisted number or dial 141 before dialling a persons number on the telephone so that your number is unobtainable by that person
• Have easy access to a telephone within the house
• Keep a list of emergency numbers by you at all times
• Use an answering machine to screen all calls
• Keep a copy of any civil injunctions in case you need to produce these for the Police in an emergency