Get Involved

Please consider your role as a good neighbor in helping to keep our community safe.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE BLOCK CAPTAIN/CO-CAPTAIN

• Complete an application/security clearance form
• Attend 2 hour training/information session provided by your local police/block watch office

• Canvass neighbors to explain the program and encourage participation
• Maintain an accurate list and map of all participants and provide an update copy to your local police/block watch office annually.
• Host an initial meeting to implement the program
• Ensure that yearly neighborhood meetings are held.
• Act as a liaison between the police department and block watch participants by providing important crime information to participants when required
• Set a good example by initiating home security and target hardening measure in his/her own home.
• Distribute the Block Watch Newsletter.
• Welcome new residents by explaining the Block Watch Program and encouraging participation.
  

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE BLOCK WATCH PARTICIPANT

• Watch out for their neighbor and their neighbor's property
• Notify police of any suspicious activity or crime in progress
• Report if they have been a victim of crime
• Notify their Block Captain if they have been a victim of a break and enter or other criminal/suspicious activity
• Update security and hardware in their homes
• Mark all valuables with their driver's license
• After participants have marked & cataloged their property they will be given Block Watch Decals by the Captain.
• Attend yearly Block Watch meetings in their neighborhood.
  
  WHAT DO BLOCK WATCH MEMBERS LOOK FOR - SUSPICIOUS
• Someone screaming or shouting for help
• Sounds of breaking glass or shattering wood
• Unusual noises
• Beam from flashlight or light in neighbor's home
• Persons going door to door
• Someone looking into windows and parked cars
• Persons waiting in front of a home or loitering around the neighborhood
• A stranger in the back yard
• Property being taken out of houses where no one is at home or a business after it has closed
• Property being carried by persons on foot
• Property being loaded into a vehicle or being removed from a vehicle
• An opened or forced door or window
• Strange vehicles parked at your neighbor's house
• Slow moving vehicles cruising the block
• Someone being forced into a vehicle
• A stranger sitting in a car or stopping to talk to a child
• Abandoned cars

Remember if you see a situation that doesn’t feel right, it's suspicious. Write down the description of any suspicious persons.  Get the model, color and license numbers of strange vehicles.   Call the police immediately.  Don't assume someone else has called.   If criminal activity has occurred let you Block Watch Captain and neighbors know but CALL THE POLICE FIRST

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