Wondering what to gift your loved ones ?
What do you think is the best gift you can give, to your parents who stay alone or to your spouse who often commutes to work with a driver or to your kid who spends more than 5 hrs lone time everyday with nanny ?
It sometimes surprises me that one word, used so often in our day to day lives, is also the one most ignored by all of us — SAFETY.
With the growing number of working parents and nuclear families, our lives have become exceedingly dependent on helpers for daily households. Most of the urban families today avail such services in one or more forms be it baby sitting, cleaning, driving, elderly care and so on. In the desperate need of hiring a helper quickly, we often overlook one most important aspect — Background Verification. Researches reveal that more than half of the incidents of crime on women, children and elderly people in the housing societies every year, are committed by repeated offenders. Let’s quickly look at some stats -
1.According to a report published by NCRB (National Crimes Records Bureau), Ministry of home affairs, in 2016, 1.37 lacs cases of theft, 78237 cases of criminal trespasses and burglary, 4280 cases of robbery, 1284 cases of Dacoity were reported in the residential premises only. (Data collected from http://ncrb.gov.in/StatPublications/CII/CII2016/pdfs/Crime%20Statistics%20-%202016.pdf)
2.Domestic helpers were involved in more than 40% of the criminal incidents reported in the residential premises last year.
3.In a news reported, a helper hired two weeks earlier poisoned five members of a family in Delhi and ransacked the house.
4. In another shocking incident, a Class XII student was kidnapped by domestic help, who had been working for the boy’s family for more than 10 years.
So who should be blamed for it. Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from such crimes. Do we really think our family is safe ? How secure is your child in the hands of nanny while you do your work at office. What if one of the domestic helper you hired, is a history-sheeter. Crime does not give you a second chance. We always believe that prevention is better than cure but in this case there is no cure. Damage once done cannot be undone. We feel sorry, when we read about such incidents in newspapers, but then we forget. We never imagine ourselves being a victim until such incident happens to us or to somebody close to us.
So how do we hire the right guy ? How do we make sure we are not hiring an offender ? The answer is simple — “ALWAYS GET YOUR HELPER VERIFIED”. While we all work hard to provide the best of education, food, comfort, medical facilities to the family members, ensuring their safety should be our top priority.
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