Neighbourhood watch is a police-organized community program
that encourages neighbours to become familiar
with each other and normal activity patterns within their community,
thereby allowing them to recognize suspicious
activities immediately.
Get to know your neighbours and get involved. Each resident
must take an active role in both security improvement
and observation. As a team, you and your neighbours will quickly
be able to spot any suspicious activity and report
it to police before a crime is committed.
To get involved in a Neighbourhood Watch Program, contact your
local Police Crime Prevention Unit. If a program
does not exist in your neighbourhood, the police will gladly help
you in getting one started.
This program is an adjunct to the Neighbourhood Watch / Block
Watch Programs and encourages citizens to mark
valuable items with their drivers license number for identification.
This is done with an engraver which marks on most
surfaces. Almost all items can be marked by using other methods
e.g. glass etching / jewellers mark. After identifying
property, a valuable property record is created, listing all valuables
along with serial numbers and any identifying marks.
Operation Identification will discourage a burglar from breaking
into a home as it will create a high risk for thief. It will
also greatly simplify the task if you should have to make a claim
with insurance companies.
With Operation Identification, police agencies have immediate
national and international communications via computers.
Within seconds, this system can give a status report on any properly
identified item. The report will tell local authorities
if the item in question has been stolen and the name of the rightful
owner.
Who To Contact
Contact your local Police Crime Prevention Unit