Thread: Security

I am looking for security cameras that are battery/solar powered, I have a long driveway that is too far to see clearly with our existing CCTV.
The mongrel feral kids are tormenting and injuring our dogs.
Any other security advice will be greatly appreciated.

The only person that has threatened our dogs is a grumpy older white guy that lives over the back of our place.
He said if our dogs keep barking he be dropping something over the back fence to permanently stop them,
Fortunately, before he realised what he'd said, he also said it in front of a next door neighbours and I hope the grumpy guy remembers this.

We've thought about getting cameras but the same next door neighbour is really into cameras and always has the latest and greatest.
He has multiple cameras covering the back front and sides of his place, fortunately they also cover our side and back fence which the grumpy old guy knows about.
I was hoping to buy one of his older cameras sets but he usually gives them to his relatives.
He recommended stuff from CCTV Security Camera Warehouse. The market leaders in home CCTV security cameras for Dahua, Hikvision, Milesight

I personally don't think cameras do that much. Lots of people have cameras on our street, but we still have a house and vehicle break in about every other week. We have a neighbourhood WhatsApp group that keeps everyone informed. The robbers usually strike around 3am, they know there are cameras and loads of automated security lighting but that doesn't stop them. Most cars in our St are in carports/driveways or on the verge and the robbers use small torches, and wear hoodies and sunglasses, and will brazenly and systematically try every vehicle door handle in the street - if they see something valuable in a locked vehicle they will break windows.

The cops are given the images off the cameras and sometimes already know who these robbers are. They go around and pick them up but the courts do nothing. Fortunately the only thing that has been taken (so far) from our place was a back number plate off one our vehicles and it was used to steal fuel from a petrol station. Replacement plates cost $30 but it was the 2 hour wait at the licensing centre to get the new ones that me off more

I think our dogs help, as they will automatically bark if anyone comes into our yard. They are only Border Collies and wouldn't hurt a fly but they have a very loud bark, the smaller one can reach 116 decibels!

Even if you have cameras i doubt they will deter them, and i doubt the cops will do much. Fortify your property with layered security to keep them out or get a couple of more vicious dogs that will maul the kids when they harass them.

Thanks for the link Bob.

After catching group of the untouchable kids all under 10 year old trying to climb a 2 m high fence, I had some heavy angle I screwed to the fence posts then runs 3 strand of barb wire a long fence line.
One of our dogs is a rescue dog from an aboriginal community in Elliott, we don't know what happened with it but when we got him he was on depression tablets, he hates 3 things kids, men and dark skin, so we have to be very careful when we have migrant friends around.
He is a real shed dog, soon as I walk towards the shed he runs up and waits at the door and stays till I am finished. if the front gate is open he will not leave the yard.

One of my neighbours is a copper, he has been broken in to, another copper told me that they have been warned not to hang their uniform out to dry where they can be seen by the untouchables as it makes them a target.


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Blimey!

I now feed lucky/privileged/blessed that nothing like that seems to happen in our suburban area.

(one break-in to our house in 22 years)

Fences are interesting. A significant fence can tell the robbers/cops - Humm, might be something interesting behind these?

When I used to walk to work I usually passed this house that over a period of about 3 months systemically was getting higher walls, loads of cameras and a couple of really nasty looking dogs that frightened the bejesus out of me when I passed them at their gate for the first time. I was listening to my radio and walked past the gas and the dogs just went berko at me and I jumped sideways about 2 m. Would have been funny if it has been caught on Video which I probably was given the array of cameras on the walls and behind the gate. Eventually the gate was reinforced and fully screened off but the dogs would still go berko behind it if anyone walked past

Some time after that I could only hear one dog and I happened to come across a heavily tattooed/fit looking dude putting out a rubbish bin from the house. He asked me if I had seen any suspicious characters around as one of his dogs had been poisoned. A few weeks later I went past and there were a bunch of upmarket cars out front as well as a half dozen cop cars. The cameras were all smashed and the gate was off its hinges and lots of profanities being thrown around . I peered inside the gate and there were half naked dudes on the ground being cuffed, dog on a chain going berko, some blood. I crossed the st and watched as more cop cars , ambulance and reporters turned up. Quite entertaining. Apparently these dudes had been on the cops radar for some time and the nearest cop shop was literally just a block away.

On the news that night there was footage and a report about a drug dealership being busted up. Turned out there was an altercation between the dudes over something drug related and a neighbour had called the cops.

Gardens are another indicator apparently. Mum and Dad lived on a corner and being both green fingered had by far the nicest looking garden in both streets and kept getting broken into many times before we moved them on. Having a crappy garden is my excuse although SWMBO scowles when she hears me say this. Occasionally she hs a fit of gardening tidying and I usually make the comment - inviting the robbers in again?

Re gardens and thieves.
My wife has a couple of Waratahs planted in the front garden just behind the old brick fence.
We get very few Waratahs but had a beauty last year.
Somebody from the units at the bottom of the street needed it more than us and snapped it off.
My wife’s very a very placid person but she was ropeable.
We’ve never had a break in but lost a car and later a bike from a van on the street.
Stuff from car in driveway.
We don’t have a woofer any more but I’ve left the warning sign on the gate.
We do dog sit our sons whippet occasionally.
H.