Tips for staying safe this holiday shopping season in Tulare County

The vacation play is present and thieves volition beryllium looking for casual targets to bargain gifts.

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- As the vacation play approaches thousands of radical successful Tulare County volition beryllium retired buying for gifts.

The Tulare Police section says they person other officers acceptable to spell during Black Friday and the Christmas season.

They accidental they spot an uptick of thieves breaking into cars and crimes of opportunity, but determination are ways to not beryllium a unfortunate of theft portion retired shopping..

Prevention starts earlier you adjacent measurement retired of your vehicle..

"When you're looking for a determination to parkland if you're going to beryllium doing your buying astatine nighttime, effort to place those locations that are good lit," explained Tulare Police Sgt. Rosa Moreno.

She besides says marque definite to fastener your car.

Do not permission valuables wherever radical tin spot them. Put them successful your trunk oregon instrumentality them home.

If you're buying with young children, having a program successful lawsuit you get separated is simply a bully idea.

"So knowing basal accusation specified arsenic their parents name, their past name, a telephone number, possibly adjacent an address," urged Sgt. Moreno.

Online shoppers should besides lone store from sites they are acquainted with and beryllium vigilant with their slope statements.

If you're getting thing delivered, marque definite idiosyncratic is location to prime it up.

The Tulare County Sheriff's Office besides says ensuring your location is locked, has information cameras and is well-lit with question sensors oregon lights with timers is important..

Plus, beryllium mindful of what you share, particularly online.

"Avoid posting abrogation plans online. We are each connected societal media present truthful you wanna marque definite you don't enactment your abrogation plans, wherever radical cognize you are retired of town," said Tulare County Sheriff's Lt. Nathan Polk.

Local departments impulse radical to telephone their non-emergency enactment if you fishy idiosyncratic of looking done people's vehicles, perchance spot idiosyncratic breaking into them, oregon if you find your car has been burglarized.

If you are caught stealing, Tulare constabulary says you volition beryllium detained and perchance taken to jail.

You tin interaction the Tulare Police Department's non-emergency enactment by calling (559) 684-4290.