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A NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH is an organized effort by concerned residents to look out for each other's safety, and to help law enforcement officers protect people and their homes against criminals. It shows people how to cooperate with each other, and with police, in a common cause -- safe homes and neighborhoods.
Working together, neighbors learn how to safeguard each other's homes and reduce the risk of crime. They become more alert to unusual or suspicious circumstances, individuals, or vehicles. They learn that it is better to call the police when they see something suspicious, even if their suspicion proves unfounded, rather than to keep quiet and risk letting a neighbor be victimized by criminals.
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Goals of the
Neighborhood Watch Program:
- Increase Citizen's awareness of burglary and other neighborhood
crime through an information program.
- Train citizens in the means of better property security & assist
them in making their property more secure.
- Encourage all citizens to cooperate with Police in reporting crime.
- Participate in Operation Identification (More Information to come).
Some helpful tips from Neighborhood Watch:
- Calling the Police-Non Emergency Phone number 619.531.2000
- What the Police need to know:
- What happened? Where? When? How? Who did it?
If a vehicle was involved:
- What was the license plate number? Color? Make? Model? Year? Which way did
it go?
- How many people in the car? Were they armed? What was their sex?
Race? Age? Height? Hair Color? Clothing? Shoes? Any unusual
Characteristics?
- Did they say anything?
- Give your Name and address.
Look for these Signs:
- A stranger entering a neighbors home that appears unoccupied
- Anyone looking into parked cars or removing parts, gasoline or
license plates.
- Breaking glass, gunshots, screams or abnormally barking dogs
- Anyone loitering around the neighborhood.
- Anyone going door to door, trying to open doors.
- Anyone carrying unwrapped property at an unusual time or running
while carrying property.
- Any vehicle cruising slowly back and forth on the street.
- Any abandoned vehicle on the street.
- Anyone sitting in a parked car. especially at an unusual hour,
outside a home or talking to a child.
- Anyone forced into a vehicle.
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