2,000 cards were recently distributed to doctors' surgeries, pharmacies and retailers in Euskirchen by the crime prevention department with the support of the Euskirchen district service.
"We have received a consistently positive response and people are pleased to be able to support the police in this area," reports Melanie Houf from Euskirchen Crime Prevention with satisfaction.
6,000 cards have now been distributed throughout the district (4,000 in the district area, 2,000 in Euskirchen city center).
A further 8,000 will now be sent to clubs, associations, churches and organizations that have registered and would like to implement the campaign among their own members. "This ensures that the warning cards reach the right target group and are not distributed indiscriminately," continues Houf.
Care services have also already approached the Euskirchen police and want to distribute the cards to their customers. These are senior citizens who still live at home but need assistance with their medication. Police officer Houf: "Many of them fall into the typical target group. The care services want to raise their customers' awareness of the issue by talking to them."
Elderly people in particular fall for con artists time and again and lose their savings.
The police warn:
- Fraudsters pretend to be police officers and report, for example, burglaries in the neighborhood or other crimes and announce that you could possibly be the next victim.
- Be suspicious of all calls - healthy suspicion is not rude!
- Do not give any information over the phone! The real police will not ask you on the phone for cash or valuables that you have at home or in a bank - not even as part of an urgent investigation.
- Don't let them scare you or put you under pressure!
- End the phone call - simply hang up the receiver or press the corresponding button on the phone.