About
What is
NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH?
The Cottonwood Heights NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH is a collaboration between the Cottonwood Heights Police Department and the private citizens of Cottonwood Heights.
The Cottonwood Heights NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH is a local residential crime prevention program in which individual citizens work to 1) make their own homes and families less inviting targets for crime, and 2) cooperate with law enforcement through block and neighborhood groups to control crime throughout the community.
Neighborhood Crime Prevention:
A Joint Responsibility
The prevention of crime—particularly crime involving residential neighborhoods—is a responsibility that must be shared equally by law enforcement and private citizens. The fact is, the impact on crime prevention by the Cottonwood Heights Police Department alone is minimal when compared with the power of Cottonwood Heights citizens working with the CHPD and with each other. Our Cottonwood Heights NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH is based on this concept of cooperation, and nationwide statistics prove that it works. When citizens take positive steps to secure their own property and neighbors learn how to report suspicious activity around their homes, burglary and related offenses decrease dramatically.
Is Your Neighborhood Ready to Resist Crime?
Or Is It A Target For Burglars?
It’s Up To You!!
Chances are good that a home burglarized today is located in a neighborhood where one vital prevention tool is missing: an active NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH group.
Home burglaries, in particular, can be minimized when community residents take steps to make their homes less attractive and vulnerable to burglars.
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We’ve had a lot of new people volunteering to be block captains and neighborhood coordinators. The only requirements are for people to have an interest in making their homes and neighborhoods safer.
I appreciate especially all the help we have received from the Cottonwood Heights Police Department, as well as all the Area Coordinators.
It is real simple, you must be willing to See, Hear, Call. We don’t patrol or anything crazy.
Joe did you hear about the group that surfaced that has 26 block captains.
The second training is Wed 1/13/2010
I’m interested in having a interview with Joe Weeks and/or Rob Aubrey about the community watch program in Cottonwood Heights so that I can fufill a requirement in my Citizenship in the Community merit badge. Please send me a reply by e-mail.