Residential and Business Security Surveys
Our Free Residential and Business Security Surveys can help make your home and/or workplace a safer more secure place. Click here to request more information.
Want to be sure your home or business is as secure as possible?
Schedule a FREE Security Survey from SJSO. We will come to your business/residence and conduct a Site Survey with you (the owners) and give you written recommendations on how to improve your security.
Security Survey Tips and FAQs
Of all the major criminal offenses, residential burglary is perhaps the most common. A burglary is reported every 15 seconds in the U.S. Burglars entered more than 2.1 million homes in 1995. Two out of every three burglaries were residential in nature and at least one home in twenty in the U.S. was burglarized in 1995.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics defines household burglary as "unlawful or forcible entry or attempted entry of a residence." This crime usually, but not always, involves theft.
 The illegal entry may be made by force, such as breaking a window or slashing a screen or it may be without force by entering through an unlocked door or an open window. As long as the person entering has no legal right to be present in the structure a burglary has occurred. Furthermore, the structure need not be the house itself for a burglary to take place; illegal entry of a garage, shed, or any other structure on the premises also constitutes household burglary. As a matter of fact, if breaking and entering occurs in a hotel or vacation residence, it is still classified as a burglary for the household whose member(s) were staying there at the time of the entry.
The majority of residential burglaries are committed by juveniles and amateurs and are crimes of opportunity. Thus the more the homeowner does to keep the home from looking like an easy target the safer it usually is.
This is a small fraction of the information all persons should have in reference to security. Please contact the SJSO Crimes Prevention Unit to arrange a presentation that will thoroughly cover Security Surveys.
For More Information about any of the
SJSO programs or services available, to set up a program/service,
or to comment on a program/service you have already participated
in, contact the Community Affairs Section at (904) 810-6690, request more information through our Crime Prevention Information Form or send an email to any of the following:
Sgt Chuck Mulligan - cmulligan@sjso.org (904) 810-6690
Dep Diana Bryant - dibryant@sjso.org (904) 810-6694
Dep Melissa Swindull - mswindull@sjso.org (904) 810-3623
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