Tips on keeping your rural or agricultural business safe.

Our ancestors had full control over entry and exit to their castles.

They achieved this by having a combined entry and exit point

using gates, watch towers, moats, walls and guards.

3 Look closely at the perimeter of your property, remove all

gates and entrances that you no longer use.

3 Plant thorn hedges with deep ditches and bunds.

3 Change the layout of your business to establish a single

entrance and exit.

3 Place a gate at the public end of your entrance to make it

less inviting.

3 Place a second inner gate at the private end of the entrance

to your property.

3 Invert and cap gate hinges so that gates cannot be lifted off,

or use good padlocks with covers so they cannot be cut off.

Also, ensure all fixing bolts cannot be removed.

3 If a gate is not being used for a lengthy period, place a

temporary obstruction in front of it so it cannot be opened or

used for parking or a rubbish tip.

3 Use locking posts or temporary obstructions to control large

openings to yards.

3 Cattle grids should be removable and locked out of position

when not in use.

3 Place CCTV cameras at the inner gate to record registered numbers

of vehicles and the faces of drivers. Place CCTV signs.

3 Install sensor controlled ‘dusk to dawn’ security lights to

alert you to visitors.

3 Install an infra red device at the inner gate which will sound

an alarm to alert you to visitors.

3 Join a ‘Watch’ scheme, obtain signs from the Police and

place them on gates.

3 Place signs saying “We do not buy from calling sales persons

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