By strategically placing cameras, you can enhance your passive crime deterrence, and provide law enforcement with useful images that may help solve crime. When deciding where to place security cameras around your home, it’s essential to strategically position cameras to cover critical and high-risk areas. Regularly review the placement and operation of each camera around your property so that you can reposition, reconfigure, or adapt to changes in the environment or potential blind spots.

We should mention here that HomeFortis does not recommend installing fake security cameras, for several reasons. Criminal data science tells us that most burglars are actually known to at least one resident of a home, but is not suspected of malice. If the residents within your home know that fake cameras are in use, you will lose the benefit of deterrence. And if a known person commits a first offense and gets away with it, they are then emboldened and more inclined to strike a familiar target again. They may figure out that if you didn’t identify them as a suspect of prior thefts, your security cameras must not be operational.

HomeFortis recommends homeowners consider specific camera locations to ensure full coverage of your property, and also some specific considerations for each camera you place: