Neighborhood Watch

January 2012   •   Date To Be Determined
FOREST KNOLLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
10830 Eastwood Avenue   •    (click “Territory” above to see map)

Police Officer Joy Patil, our district’s community policing officer, will be conducting Neighborhood Watch training for anyone interested.  Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend.  We’ll meet in the All-Purpose Room at FKES.

This is the second of two formal training sessions.  You needn’t have attended the first in December to attend this meeting!  The intent is to train enough residents on interested streets so that those streets can establish registered watches and have the easily recognizable Neighborhood Watch signs placed.  This January meeting will cover how to observe so you can give the police correct information.

Neighborhood Watch is one of the most effective and least costly ways to prevent crime and reduce fear.  It forges bonds among area residents, helps reduce burglaries and robberies, and improves relations between police and the communities they serve.

  • Any community resident can join — young and old, single and married, renter and home owner.
  • A few concerned residents, a community organization, or a law enforcement agency can spearhead the effort to organize a Watch.
  • Members learn how to make their homes more secure, watch out for each other and the neighborhood, and report activities that raise their suspicions to the police.
  • You can form a Watch group around any geographical unit:  a block, apartment, park, business area, public housing complex, or office.
  • Watch groups are not vigilantes.  They are extra eyes and ears for reporting crime and helping neighbors.  Neighborhood Watch helps build pride and serves as a springboard for efforts that address community concerns such as recreation for youth, child care, and affordable housing.

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