to cut crime and opportunities for crime
to help and reassure those who live in fear of crime
to encourage neighbourliness and closer communities
WHAT WE ASK YOU TO DO
VERY LITTLE, REALLY!
We ask you for your name, address and a contact telephone number and that you prominantly display the Neighbourhood Watch window stickers.
Just by displaying those stickers you are helping to tell the thief, 'It's not an easy street and you might as well go elsewhere'.
To paraphrase the words of US President John F Kennedy, 'Ask not what you can do for Neighbourhood Watch, but what Neighbourhood Watch can do for you'.
Now read on .....
AND WHAT WE DO FOR YOU
First of all we are not a vigilante group or a second police force and we do not patrol the streets as such.
We are a group of people who believe that, by working together, and simply caring about our neighbours, we can make a tremendous difference for our joint wellbeing and safety.
Being a part of a Neighbourhood Watch gives you that extra security - the knowledge that, not only are others looking to your safety as you do to theirs, but there is also our tried and tested communication network, linked to the police and ...
the criminal doesn't like that one bit!