• Maintain awareness of your surroundings when entering, exiting, and operating your vehicle. Awareness enables you to detect potential threats and take action to avoid or deal with them. Be especially observant at red lights, in parking lots, and at crosswalks
• When approaching your parked vehicle visually check the area around the vehicle for any suspicious person or activity. If you observe anything suspicious walk directly to a location where there are other people and notify the Police.
• Have your keys ready when approaching your vehicle to reduce the time needed to enter. Visually check the interior before entering.
• When operating your vehicle keep the doors locked and the window rolled up. Avoid traveling alone at night, if at all possible.
• Any valuables in your vehicle should be carried in the trunk or otherwise kept out of sight.
• When stopped at traffic lights or in traffic, allow space between you and the vehicle in front of you so that you can drive away if necessary.
• If someone approaches your vehicle and attempts to enter, blow your horn to attract attention and drive away. If the person stands in the path of your vehicle drive away slowly to compel them to move.
• Do not open your window if someone approaches your vehicle to ask for directions, the time, etc. Keep the door(s) locked.
• Do not pick up hitchhikers!

• If your vehicle becomes disabled and help is not within walking distance, stay in the vehicle with doors locked and windows rolled up. Activate your hazard lights and await a police patrol. If someone stops to assist you, tell them (through the closed window) to call the Police. Do not exit the vehicle until a uniformed officer in a marked patrol vehicle arrives.
• If you are confronted by an armed assailant that has the capability of using a weapon against you, the decision to comply or resist is a personal decision based on the circumstances.
• Remember that any property that you possess is not as valuable as your life.

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PUT YOUR CAR KEYS BESIDE YOUR BED AT NIGHT

• Next time you come home for the night and you start to put your keys away, think of this: It's a security alarm system that you probably already have and requires no installation.
• Test it. It will go off from most everywhere inside your house and will keep honking until the car battery runs down or until you reset it with the button on the key fob chain.  It works if you park in your driveway or garage.
• If you hear a noise outside your home or someone trying to get into your house, just press the panic button for your car. If your car alarm goes off when someone is trying to break in your house, odds are the burglar/rapist won't stick around... after a few seconds all the neighbors will be looking out their windows to see who is out there and sure enough the criminal won't want that!
• And remember to carry your keys while walking to your car in a parking lot. The alarm can work the same way there.