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It is important to read the following points for your consideration

  Your elbow is the sharpest and strongest point on your body. If you are close enough to use it, do so with as much force as you can manage.

 If alone, take a lift instead of the stairs. Stairwells can be the perfect crime spot.

 If a robber asks for your handbag or whatever you are carrying, DO NOT HAND IT OVER. Throw it away from you as far as you can.  He is probably more interested in whatever you are carrying than you and he will go for the bag.  RUN LIKE MAD IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION TOWARDS A PLACE OF SAFETY!

 When returning to your car, look at any car parked either side of your vehicle. If a male is sitting alone in the seat nearest your car and you feel uneasy about it, you may want to walk back into the shop or work and get someone to walk back to the car with you. IT IS ALWAYS BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY.

 Before you enter your car, look carefully around you and into your car at the passenger side floor well and check the back seat area.

 If parked next to a big van that wasn’t there when you arrived, enter your car from the door away from the van.  Assailants have been known to surprise their victims by pulling them into their vans whilst attempting to get into their own cars.

 Women have a tendency to get into their cars after shopping, eating, working etc., and brush their hair or do up their makeup before moving off.

   DO NOT DO IT!  Someone could be watching you and this is the perfect opportunity for an assailant to get into the car on the passenger side and begin an assault.  AS SOON AS YOU GET INTO YOUR CAR, LOCK THE DOORS AND LEAVE.

 If whilst driving alone at night and you get the feeling that a vehicle behind you is attempting to get you to pull over to stop but you cannot determine whether this is a police officer, then keep going but driving within the law and find a place of safety.  The best place is where there may be other people, it is brightly lit and there are cameras.  A garage forecourt might be the appropriate place.  The police officer behind you would understand you doing what you did to get to that place of safety; a villain would keep on driving.

 Rather unlikely perhaps but if you are ever thrown into the boot of a car: Kick out the back tail lights and stick your arm through the hole and start waving. The driver won't see you but everybody else will.

 Women tend to more sympathetic. STOP IT WHEN ALONE.  An actual serial killer was a good- looking, well educated man, who ALWAYS played on the sympathies of unsuspecting women. He walked with a cane, or a limp, and often asked 'for help' into his vehicle or with his vehicle at which point he began an assault.

AN ALLEGEDLY TRUE STORY

A lone female stopped to buy petrol, filled the tank and went to pay for it. The cashier told her not to pay just yet but to walk around the store and act as if she was purchasing other items. A stranger had been seen entering the back of her car. The cashier had called the police and they were expected at any time. They arrived and found a man hiding in the back seat floor well of the car and questioned him.  He was joining a gang and the initiation was to kidnap a female and take her back to the gang to be assaulted by every member of the gang. The police could only charge him with trespassing.

PLEASE ENSURE TO LOCK YOUR VEHICLE WHEN YOU LEAVE IT UNATTENDED.