Cottonwood Heights NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
“We See, We Hear, We Call”
August 2009 Newsletter
NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH in Your Community
In 1972, the National Neighborhood Watch Program was begun with the goal of uniting law enforcement agencies, private organizations, and individual citizens in a coordinated effort to reduce residential crime. Through the Program, individual citizens learn how to make their homes and families less inviting targets for crime. Citizens learn to work with law enforcement through block and neighborhood groups to control crime throughout the community.
RUIN A CRIMINAL’S DAY!
A criminal hates publicity. It is most annoying when neighbors are watching for unusual activity or unknown people loitering. How can a criminal get any work done when people are asking questions, writing down license plates of strange cars and making it more difficult to sneak in and out of a home or car? What kind of criminal can hang around when everyone has their porch lights on or even worse, those ridiculous motion detector lights that turn on when someone walks up to the house? No criminal wants to hang around when cop cars show up just because the neighbors think there’s something suspicious going on next door or down the street. Nope. Those kind of neighborhoods just ruin a criminal’s day!
GET INVOLVED
Want to get in on the fun? You could be one of many to keep crime out of your neighborhood! “How?” you may ask. Get involved. All you need are your eyes, your ears, and your phone. The Cottonwood Heights Police Department and interested citizens are kicking off a NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH Program covering the entire Cottonwood Heights community. You are already doing it and you didn’t even know it! When was the last time you picked up mail for your vacationing neighbor, or took care of a pet, or watered the yard and plants for a day or two, or went to check on a neighbor you hadn’t seen out and about for a while? You were doing the same stuff the NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH program does. Getting involved means calling 801-840-4000 whenever you see something suspicious or weird going on. You get to DO SOMETHING.
All family members are welcome to join NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH, as young people can add substantially to the success of the program. Senior citizen participation is also a plus; retired seniors are home and can observe the neighborhood when many other adults are at work.
INFO: Go to www.chneighborhoodwatch.com. During the coming months, you’ll receive newsletters with information on how to protect your home, how to report suspicious activity, and many other topics that will help you and your family. On our website, you’ll be able to connect to information links about up-coming events, current crime statistics, and tips to improve home, family, and neighborhood safety.