Don’t take all your cash with you to the beach and other tips to avoid theft during a Hawaii holiday

HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu police recently received some attention on social media for recommending beachgoers not leave their valuables unattended and instead take those items with them into the ocean in a waterproof bag.

But the police and the Visitor Aloha Society of Hawaii, a nonprofit organization that helps tourists who become victims of crime or other problems, also have even more basic advice: Don’t take your valuables to the beach at all. Instead, they say, leave them at the place you are staying.