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CASAC helps makes homes safer in landmark project

THOUSANDS of people across West Yorkshire are feeling more secure in their homes after a Government-funded scheme led to nearly 2,500 properties having their security improved.
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Innovative scheme to beat crime

Ever needed a tradesman who you can trust to carry out work on your home but don't know where to go?

Then CASAC (Community Action and Support Against Crime) have the ideal solution with its 'Check Point' service.
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People urged to secure their home against burglars

A social enterprise which secures homes against burglars is celebrating after their work thwarted thieves just a few days after new locks were installed at homes in one Bradford street.
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Festive Thieves Won’t Have A Happy Christmas

Thieves who target homes over the Christmas period in West Yorkshire are in for a shock this year as many homes are being protected by a new DNA forensic marking system that can easily link criminals to the scene of the crime.
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CASAC in the Press
These are a selection of links to CASAC in the Media
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1 Videos about prevention tips launched by Bradford police
Police in Bradford are launching an innovative digital home security guide to help keep burglars at bay.
2 Nearly 200 homes to be secured against burglars in North Bradford
The North Bradford Neighbourhood Policing Team together with Incommunities, CASAC, and Lower Grange Community Association are reinforcing nearly 200 houses in the area as part of a £25,000 Safer Home Project.
3 Don't Give Thieves A Lucky Break This Winter
Householders are being asked to ensure sure that their door locks are up to scratch to make sure they don’t give thieves a lucky break.
4 Horsforth Cricket Club bids to beat the hooligans
Anti-vandal measures have been suggested after a security assessment carried out by the Community Action and Support Against Crime (CASAC) team and the police.
5 New Scheme Helps Vulnerable
Pontefract and Knottingley Neighbourhood Police Team has teamed up with charity CASAC to help vulnerable people in the area avoid rogue traders.
6 leeds social enterprise urges residents ‘beat the burglar’
An article from the Social Enterprise Live website.
7 Councillors crack down on crime
An article on the Liberal Democrats Leeds website about a CASAC project that targets streets where there have been burglaries as well as vulnerable people such as the elderly and helps to improve security in their homes.
8 Free Help To Combat Burglary
An article on West Yorkshire Police's website highlighting CASAC's involvement with an initiative to reduce burgalry in the Woodhouse area of Leeds
9 Tough new security for burglary's soft targets
An article from August 2009 about CASAC using Home Office Safer Homes funding to secure vunerable homes
10 Check Point Tackling the Rogue Traders
An article on West Yorkshire Police's website about the launch of CASAC Check Point in Castleford
11 Thumbs up for burglary watch
An article about operation Sound Box, which targeted vunerable properties in the Queensbury and Wibsey areas of Bradford in partnership with West Yorkshire Police.
12 Homes in Aireborough, Horsforth and Wharfedale are safer
An article about CASAC being awarded £60,000 by the North West (Outer) Area Committee last year to combat burglary.
13 Ways to get to grips with the lock smashers
An article from January 2008 regarding issues with Euro profile cylinders
14 Champion way to improve behaviour on city estates
An article from June 2007 mentioning CASAC's involvement in Operation Champion.
15 Security in the Summer gets cold shoulder
SNEAK-IN burglaries in Leeds and Wakefield have rocketed during the latest hot spell as sun worshippers give home security the cold shoulder.

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