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What is Neighbourhood Watch?
Neighbourhood Watch is one of the biggest and most successful crime prevention initiatives ever. Behind it lies a simple idea, and a central value shared by millions of people around the country:
Getting together with your neighbours to take action can cut local crime.
Everyone knows that the police are there to fight crime, but they need your help to do an effective job. Neighbourhood Watch is all about an active partnership with the police. Neighbourhood Watch schemes can:
· Cut crime and the opportunities for crime
·Help and reassure those who live in the area
·Encourage neighbourliness and closer communities
·Create better places in which to live, work and play
Neighbourhood Watch is not just about reducing burglary figures - it's about creating communities who care. It brings local people together and can make a real contribution to improving their life and environment. The activity of Watch members could help foster a new community spirit and a belief in the community's ability to tackle problems. At the same time, you feel secure, knowing your neighbours are keeping an eye on your property.
There are other benefits to belonging to a Neighbourhood Watch scheme in this area too. You will have the opportunity to become familiar with crime prevention ideas. This will help keep your home and belongings safe and together with the extra security, which belonging to Neighbourhood Watch schemes may offer from time to time.
Your guide to home security:
There are many things you can do to deter a burglar from breaking into your home. It is a mistake to rely on only one or two deterrents - the more you have, the safer you are. To read on click here »
POLICE:
Thames Valley - 0845 850505 www.thamesvalley.police.uk
Northamptonshire HQ - 01604 700700 www.northants.police.uk
Emergency - 999
More news: The new 101 national police non-emergency number is being launched.
From next Monday (17 October), 101 will be the new number to contact Northamptonshire Police.
The 101 non-emergency number will provide you with a single, easy to remember number for you to call to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency police response.
You will be able to call 101 to report a crime that has already happened and any other incidents or concerns that do not require an emergency response. You can also call it to speak to your local Safer Community Team, to make a general enquiry or make us aware of any policing issues in your local area.
Neighbourhood Watch is one of the biggest and most successful crime prevention initiatives ever. Behind it lies a simple idea, and a central value shared by millions of people around the country:
Getting together with your neighbours to take action can cut local crime.
Everyone knows that the police are there to fight crime, but they need your help to do an effective job. Neighbourhood Watch is all about an active partnership with the police. Neighbourhood Watch schemes can:
· Cut crime and the opportunities for crime
·Help and reassure those who live in the area
·Encourage neighbourliness and closer communities
·Create better places in which to live, work and play
Neighbourhood Watch is not just about reducing burglary figures - it's about creating communities who care. It brings local people together and can make a real contribution to improving their life and environment. The activity of Watch members could help foster a new community spirit and a belief in the community's ability to tackle problems. At the same time, you feel secure, knowing your neighbours are keeping an eye on your property.
There are other benefits to belonging to a Neighbourhood Watch scheme in this area too. You will have the opportunity to become familiar with crime prevention ideas. This will help keep your home and belongings safe and together with the extra security, which belonging to Neighbourhood Watch schemes may offer from time to time.
Your guide to home security:
There are many things you can do to deter a burglar from breaking into your home. It is a mistake to rely on only one or two deterrents - the more you have, the safer you are. To read on click here »
POLICE:
Thames Valley - 0845 850505 www.thamesvalley.police.uk
Northamptonshire HQ - 01604 700700 www.northants.police.uk
Emergency - 999
More news: The new 101 national police non-emergency number is being launched.
From next Monday (17 October), 101 will be the new number to contact Northamptonshire Police.
The 101 non-emergency number will provide you with a single, easy to remember number for you to call to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency police response.
You will be able to call 101 to report a crime that has already happened and any other incidents or concerns that do not require an emergency response. You can also call it to speak to your local Safer Community Team, to make a general enquiry or make us aware of any policing issues in your local area.
Living in a rural area as we do, the police look to the local community for its support to control vandalism and crime in the village. This is where the neighbourhood watch is of great assistance in monitoring and controlling crime. Neighbourhood Watch started in the UK in 1982. There are now some 170,000 schemes running throughout the UK covering six million households, which makes Neighbourhood Watch the largest voluntary movement in the country.
Neighbourhood Watch
