Neighborhood Block Watch Program:
A joint effort between police and the community to reduce
crime.
A program designed to enhance neighborhood security.
A program organized to heighten community observation.
A total effort to encourage mutual assistance and concern
among neighbors.
Who Needs Block Watch
The modern growing community in which there is more privacy
and less familiarity.
What is the Block Watch Objective?
To Reduce The Incidence Of Crime By:
- Increasing citizens’ awareness of neighborhood crime
- Teaching citizens’ practical crime prevention programs so
they will recognize and properly report suspicious activity.
- Teach citizens proper home security measures.
- Encouraging a positive working relationship between police
and neighborhood.
To Start A Neighborhood Block Watch in Your
Neighborhood
- Contact your local police department for assistance.
- Host an Informational Block Watch Meeting in your
neighborhood. A police officer attend this initial meeting to
further explain and answer questions about the Block Watch
Concept and help organize and direct your group.
- You and a friend personally visit each home on your block
and distribute information announcing the meeting.
- Encourage the block watch goal of 100% neighborhood
participation.
List of current
neighborhood block watch groups and meeting times:
North Derry Avenue Block Watch
Meeting: second Tues. of the month 6:30 P.M. Derry Township Senior
Citizen Center, Mill Rd., Yeagertown, Pa.
Burnham Block Watch Meeting: Last Wed. of the month 7:00 P.M. @
the Burnham Fire Department.
The public is invited to attend these meetings and anyone
interested in starting a Neighborhood Block Watch should contact:
Charles Dicken, Neighborhood Block Watch Coordinator, Mifflin
County Communities that Care, (717) 248-3994 or
Officer Robert Haines, Mifflin County Regional Police at
(717)248-1900, extension 615.
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Available literature :
How to be "Streetwise" and Safe
Senior Citizens Against Crime
Crime on Wheels
Neighborhood Block Watch
Confidence Games And Swindles
Operation Identification
Latchkey Children: Young Children at Home Alone
Request Pamphlets
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Specific Information:
Con Games
Personal Safety
Senior Safety
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