Home Invasion Defense
Are you concerned about the increasing incidents of home invasions across the US? Or do you live in a country where home invasions are common? Do you worry about the safety of yourself and your family?
If you have ever wanted to secure your home against this crime but do not know the steps you need to take, you have come to the right place.
Few statistics are available on home invasion as a crime, because it is not technically a specific crime in most states. Persons charged with “home invasion” are actually charged with robbery, kidnapping, homicide, rape, or assault charges. But law enforcement has been seeing the increase in “home-invasion robberies” since at least June 1995, when “home-invasion robberies” were the topic of the cover story of The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. They state the crime is considered an alternative to bank or convenience store robberies, which are getting harder to pull off cleanly due to technological advances in security. In this same article, the FBI recommends educating the public about home invasion. Before the term “home invasion” came in use, the term “hot burglary” was often used in the literature. Early references also use “burglary of occupied homes” and “burglar striking an occupied residence”.
1995? That was 16 years ago, as of this writing! The problem has done nothing but get worse. I subscribe to Google Alerts for reports on Home Invasions, and I get numerous links on incidents that occur every single day.
This is my attempt to provide the average homeowner with some of the principles and concepts of facility defense that have been employed by the country’s nuclear power industry.
While the specifics of how each facility protects itself are classified as Security Safeguards Information and are restricted from public disclosure, the principles and concepts are not. You can apply them to your home.
Hello, my name is Bill Hay, and I have almost 30 years in the nuclear security business. Back in 1980 when I started, I was hired as an armed officer, a member of the federally required Armed Response Team charged with protecting the plant against a terrorist attack. Subsequent to that, I have been primarily a trainer, teaching firearms, tactics, self defense, and creating various security training programs.
Since those early years, the requirements and standards for our response procedures have been steadily raised by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The Twin Towers event of 9/11 lit a fire under the NRC’s tail, and the requirements were ratcheted up even more, as you might well imagine. The evolution of the threat and of the required response continues to this day.
The underlying principles and concepts of facility defense however, have not changed. They work quite well, it is just a matter of applying them to your home defense strategy.
As trainers, we were all intimately involved in the conceptualization of our defensive strategy and it’s implementation. I now offer these underlying principles and concepts of facility defense to you. Within the three parts that I currently offer, you can analyze your personal situation, create your home defensive strategy, polish up your firearms training, and much more.
If you can find just one or two things that you can use to make your strategy workable, then you will have justified your time and resources. It might be just that single addition that stops or slows down your intruder such that you can gain control, and stop the attack.
