What to do, if you are threatened? Security and personal safety.

Typically, the element of the surprise, panic effects,  and sometimes a state of shock, and indeed the information obtained lead to the fact that person is unable to respond to the message properly, to assess the reality of the threat and get more information out of it.

What to do, if you are threatened by the phone?

Calls with threats may come to you personally, and include, for example, the requirements to pay a considerable total of money. If your phone received previously the similar calls, or if you have a reason to think that it can be in the future, of course, set the mobile phone caller ID and voice recorder. With its presence immediately record determine the phone number in a notebook, in order to avoid the accidental loss of it.

In the presence of the recording equipment remove the cassette (minidisc) with a record of the conversation immediately, and take care to ensure its preservation. Be sure to install on that place the  another tape. Remember that without the number of the caller and sound of the conversation in law enforcement would be very little material to work with, as well as decrease the evidence base for use in the court.

In the absence of the recording equipment and caller ID the substantial assistance to the law enforcement agencies to prevent the crime and tracing criminals, there will be your next steps:

• Try to remember everything from the conversation and write it on paper.

• During the conversation check the sex and age of the caller, all special in the speech, the voice (loud or soft, high or low), the rate of speech (fast or slow), the pronunciation (clear, distortion, stuttering, lisping, a dialect or accent), the way of speech (cheeky, mockingly or profanity).

• Be sure to check the background sound (noise of the cars or railway transportation, the sound of television or radio, voices).

• Check the nature of the call – urban or interurban.

• Be sure to fix the start time and duration of the conversation.

You should, if it`s possible, during the conversation answer the following questions:

• To whom, where, on what phone calls this man?

• What are the specific demands he puts forward?

• Is he putting the demands by himself, or acts as an intermediary, or is in some group of the people?

• On what conditions he will agree to give up planned?

• How and when you can contact him?

• Whom you can or should say about this call?

Try to get from the caller the maximum possible period of time to make your decisions on “make his requirements,” or taking any other actions. Do not fear the intimidation from the criminals, at the end of  conversation immediately report about it to the law enforcement.

If you have anxieties that your phone is tapped by criminals – call back from another number. Practice shows that the concealment of the threats like these complicates the situation and contribute to commit a crime with impunity.

In addition to the threats, nominated by the phone to you personally, criminals can make use of your phone number to report the information you’ll need to pass the law enforcement agencies. For example, your phone received a call, in which an unknown said that your house is mined. When it`s this kind of the conversation, try to follow the above recommendations and remember the best possible information. After its termination report this information to the law enforcement authorities immediately.

What to do, if you are threatened in the letters?

Threats in writing form may come to you on the e-mail, and in  various kinds of the anonymous materials (notes, inscriptions, information on the floppy disks, etc.).

• Upon receipt of such a document, refer to it as much as possible carefully.

• Try not to let on it your fingerprints.

• Do not crease the paper, don`t do the notes.

• If it`s possible, put the document in a clean tight-fitting plastic bag and place it in a separate folder tough.

• If the document was entered in an envelope, opening it only by the left or right side, neatly cutting the edges with the scissors.

• Save all: the document with the text, any attachments, envelope and packaging – do not throw away anything.

• Do not enlarge the circle of the people, who are familiar with the content of this document.

• All this will help the law enforcement agencies during the subsequent forensic investigations. The reception from the citizens of anonymous materials, containing various kinds of threats and demands, is made out of a written statement or an oral statement protocol decision of the receipt or detection of such materials.