Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAs many people prepare to leave town for the holidays, several Central Florida police departments are offering free programs to help keep homes secure by providing extra security checks.Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said his team provides the Vacation House Check Program, allowing residents to receive up to 20 house-watch checks per year at no cost. Trained Citizens on Patrol volunteers inspect the exterior of homes and call a deputy if anything appears suspicious.”We won’t physically touch anything. We don’t want to set an alarm off. We will make sure the windows aren’t broken, screens are not cut, no pry marks on the door, anything they can see visually or anything suspicious, then they have a deputy sheriff respond,” Staly said.Several Central Florida law enforcement agencies, including those in Seminole and Brevard counties, offer similar free house watch or vacation check programs. Residents can request these services by filling out an online form. While the Orange County Sheriff’s Office does not have a formal program, residents can call its nonemergency line to request a home check.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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As many people prepare to leave town for the holidays, several Central Florida police departments are offering free programs to help keep homes secure by providing extra security checks.<\/p>\n
Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said his team provides the Vacation House Check Program, allowing residents to receive up to 20 house-watch checks per year at no cost. Trained Citizens on Patrol volunteers inspect the exterior of homes and call a deputy if anything appears suspicious.<\/p>\n
“We won’t physically touch anything. We don’t want to set an alarm off. We will make sure the windows aren’t broken, screens are not cut, no pry marks on the door, anything they can see visually or anything suspicious, then they have a deputy sheriff respond,” Staly said.<\/p>\n
Several Central Florida law enforcement agencies, including those in Seminole and Brevard counties, offer similar free house watch or vacation check programs. Residents can request these services by filling out an online form. While the Orange County Sheriff’s Office does not have a formal program, residents can call its nonemergency line to request a home check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TERRIBLE. YEAH NOT BAD AT THAT. ALL RIGHT. MANY PEOPLE ARE GOING OUT OF TOWN FOR THE HOLIDAYS,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[315,48632,6423,6025,4561,11760,28,30,29,48631,48633,48637,48635,2171,3883,48636,48634,164],"class_list":["post-89994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-brevard-county","tag-central-florida-police","tag-citizens","tag-cost","tag-deputy","tag-exterior","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-holiday-traveler","tag-home-check","tag-house-watch-check","tag-patrol-volunteer","tag-resident","tag-seminole","tag-similar-free-house-watch","tag-vacation-house-check-program","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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