There has been one story that haunts me each fall since 1990.

I still remember it as a 12-year-old boy, sitting in an auditorium listening to some overweight man with a moustache lecturing us in a hunter’s safety course. He then turned on a video describing a horrible event involving a father and son on a hunting trip.

The two were hunting ducks. They were walking by a river in the trees, the son following the father, when a duck flew in the air. The father aimed and followed the duck with his site as it circled around.

Often times break-ins happen at night even though most burglaries happen between 6 AM and 6 PM. Infrared security cameras provide you with security at night; they are invisible night watchmen. Many business owners worried about after hour break-ins, burglaries and vandalism all employ infrared security cameras. The benefits of having a system such as this that can record pictures in the black of night are numerous. You need no ambient light source and you can conceal the camera, essentially reducing it to invisibility by placing it in the darkest crevice in the recording perimeter of your choosing. There is no better watchman than one who cannot be seen.

A simple way to enhance your home’s security is to install some lighting. There are three different techniques to use lighting for security purposes. They are dusk to dawn lighting, motion activated lighting, and a combination hi/lo lighting.

The first is the simplest system in which the area is lit all night long. The concept works based on the premise that burgulars will think twice about doing something suspicious in a well lit area. Take away the cover of darkness and the offender no longer feels confident and might just change his mind.