Safety and security tips
Check your home security
SAPOL is committed to working in partnership with the community to prevent crime and reduce the fear of crime to ensure that South Australia is a safe place to live, visit and do business.
Complete the Home Security Checklist to identify some suggested treatments to improve your home security.
Bike security cranks up a gear
Break the cycle of bike theft and keep your bicycle secure! Get your copy of SA Police's ‘Bike Passport’ and the accompanying ‘Don’t Lose It Lock It’ flyer.
Bushfire prevention fact sheets
Bushfire prevention posters
Fact sheets
- Aggressive customers
- Armed robbery
- Building site theft
- Business security
- Closed circuit television
- Computer security for business
- Counterfeit banknotes
- CPTED
- CPTED strategy
- Credit card protection
- Graffiti prevention
- Property marking for tradies
- Retail theft prevention
- Scrap metal theft
- Staff education
- Staff employment
- Transit aggressive passengers
- Vehicle security for tradies
Fact sheets
Fact sheets
Visit the Office of the eSafety Commissioner, Australia's regulator for online safety:
It can investigate:
- Cyberbullying - Serious harmful online communication to or about a child or young person under 18. This behaviour can include being mean online, sending hurtful messages, sharing embarrassing photos and creating fake accounts.
- Adult cyber abuse - Seriously harmful online communication to or about a person who is 18 or older. This content is menacing, harassing or offensive and intended to cause serious harm. It may include tech abuse, being cyber stalked, threatened online or being doxed (having private or identifying information published typically without consent and/or with malicious intent).
- Image based abuse - Sharing or threatening to share nudes or intimate images or videos of a person without their consent - sometimes called 'revenge porn' or sexual extortion.
- Illegal or restricted content - Content that shows or encourages the sexual abuse or exploitation of children, terrorist acts or other types of violent crimes or extreme violence.
Visit Think you know for cyber safety resources and information including:
- factsheets and guides for parents and youth on cyber safety issues and apps
- information on the ThinkUKnow program and on parent, carer, teacher and youth presentations delivered by SA Police members and partners of the ThinkUKnow program.
To book a youth presentation contact your local police station and ask for the Crime Prevention Section. To book an adult presentation book online via the ThinkUKnow website.
For more information about internet safety and security please go to the Scams and Cybercrime page.
Fact sheets
Fact sheets
- Antisocial behaviour - Wasted! So is your life!
- Cyber safety - Surfing? Avoid the online sharks!
- Cyber safety - Tips
- Graffiti - Art? Hang it on your own wall
- School vandalism - School break? From it not to it
- Sexting - Think before you send
- Shop theft - Want a label? Don't get one as a thief!
- Rock throwing - must have rocks in your head
- Social Inclusion - Together we are better
You can download SAPOL’s app to access some of the youth safety posters on your mobile device.
Fact sheets
Crime prevention presentations
South Australia Police offers crime prevention and safety presentations on:
- personal safety
- home security
- safety online
- business security
- armed robbery prevention.
Contact the Crime Prevention Section at your local police station to find out more or to book a free presentation.