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Sanford PD N/W handbook:
Benefits of N/W Program
4. Knowing your neighbor is an important feature and benefit of this program. You get to know participant’s regular patterns so you can see when something is unusual. You get to know how to contact them quickly.
Get Involved....
By participating in a program where "We Look Out For Each Other!", you
can make a real difference in attacking crime in your community through your Neighborhood Watch involvement.
You will learn about your neighbors, their families, their hours of work and be
able to protect them while at the same time they will be protecting you. This mutual benefit goes beyond security of the neighborhood to improving the quality of your life with better friendships and acquaintances. Get-togethers, such as potluck dinners and block parties are encouraged in the program.
What you will not do is get physically involved with any activity you report or
apprehension of any suspicious persons. This is the job of the law enforcement agency.
1. Neighbors join together to provide information about their households to one another.
2. Participants receive training in observation techniques and recognition skills in order to recognize suspicious activities.
3. Upon seeing a suspicious activity or a crime, Participants immediately report their observation to the police department.
4. Law enforcement responds and apprehends the suspect criminal. If the suspect is not caught in the act of committing the crime, your recognition of the suspect and your notes will be very vital.
5. As a Participant your cooperation with the police department is rewarded by you
police having saved your neighbor's property or even their life.
Neighborhood Watch begins with you knowing your own neighbors. Our motto, "We Look Out For Each Other!", means exactly what it says. As a participant, your ability to observe and recognize what is usual and customary comes as a result of paying attention and focusing your mind on the daily, ordinary, happenings in your neighborhood.
Being a Neighborhood Watch participant does not mean you are being a "busybody," or you are invading anyone's privacy, or that you are snooping. It does mean that you are aware for potential trouble and you are living up to our motto, 'We Look Out For Each Other!' And as a vigilant neighbor, you are prepared to call your law enforcement agency when you suspect potential trouble with no hesitation.
YOU SHOULD KNOW:
What are all the addresses, styles and colors of houses in my Neighborhood Watch group.
Who lives in each dwelling?
What are their ages?
What hours does each person work?
What cars do they drive?
When do the routine maintenance people or household helpers come by?
Who is elderly and/or infirm?
Which dwellings have kids who are home alone at times?
When are they going on vacation?
Who may be into drugs or gangs?
Who are having juvenile delinquency or other family problems?
Who just moved into the neighborhood?
Your neighborhood Family Data Sheet Summary and the Telephone Tree, shown on the
following page, are important sources of information.
As a Neighborhood Watch participant, you have a responsibility to:
1. Learn your neighbor's names, including all occupants of their residences. Be able to
recognize them and their vehicles without any hesitation.
3. Keep your personal copies of the Neighborhood Watch Family Data Summary
Sheets, Block map, and Telephone Tree in an easily accessible, secure place and continually updated with any new information provided by your Block Captain
10. Remember always that your responsibility is to report crime. Do
not take any risks to prevent a crime or try to make an arrest.
The responsibility for apprehending criminals belongs to the police department.
12. Get Involved! Look Out For Each Other! Be a good neighbor.
Below is an example of a completed map. For each home, the color, street number, family name, home and work phone numbers are listed plus the street names and compass directions are indicated. Homes that are "vacant" and "not participating" should be shown.
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