 Hey, I'm Officer McCombs with the City of Columbus Police Department. I work with the community response team and today I'm just going to give you some holiday tips during the holiday season. You want to at least try and get some home timers so your lights come on outside or inside. Some sensor lights on the outside of your house are always perfect because it always makes it seem like somebody's at home. I think people make the common conception of if I have an alarm system, I don't need to secure anything else when that is by far not the truth. Just because you have an alarm system it takes them two to three minutes to dispatch us to a call. So imagine two to three minutes that the call takes to get to us and then depending on where the officer is how long it takes us to get to your actual location. So I would say roughly ten minutes if somebody can clear a lot of stuff out of your house in ten minutes. We understand you know people take pride in their Christmas trees but I would suggest probably some sheer curtains and put the tree in front of some sheer curtains. That way you can still see it from the outside but you can't see anything but the tree. You can't see anything behind it. Also a lot of people are leaving their windows unlocked. I think that's the most unchecked thing that I even am guilty of doing it sometimes. I don't always check my windows to make sure they're locked to your home windows. Please make sure they're locked. Make sure and look around, do your own home inspection. You can call 252-2911 and actually put your house on a property check here with the City of Columbia Police Department as long as you live in the city limits and we'll check your house every hour to every two hours or depending on how many call volumes we have we can check your house throughout.