Neighbourhood Watch

Hallmark August 1988. Neighbourhood Watch by Peter Trotter click Peter & Lilian Trotter for more about Peter

What can you do about crime? Join Neighbourhood Watch, but remember it needs a commitment from you.

Neighbourhood Watch is a collective responsibility assisting the police to prevent crime. It is not, as some people think, a private security group, it does not guard or patrol. It is an awareness to prevent the opportunist thief.

Your commitment should include ensuring doors and windows have good security locks fitted and that all ladders, etc., are locked away. Tell you neighbours when you are away, leave them a key. Mark your valuables (your group can hire the equipment) and keep a list of them in a safe place. Consider fitting an alarm system.

Collective responsibility with your neighbours. What if all the houses in your Street took these precautions - and what if everyone kept a lookout for anything suspicious?? That's the idea behind Neighbourhood Watch. With the whole neighbourhood on its guard, how can a burglar sneak in without being spotted? It is for you all to look, listen and report signs of trouble the moment you see them. Don't wait - act. The more people who do something about crime, the less of it there'll be.

Come on, join your local group now and do something about crime.

To be effective you should display your door sticker showing that you are in Neighbourhood Watch and that your property is post coded. As an additional deterrent, Neighbourhood Watch signs will shortly be erected on all the roads into our two villages.

Hallmark August 1997. Neighbourhood Watch. By Sheryl Burroughs, Area Co-ordinator

Things have been very quiet recently, unless you are the owner of the cars that have been stolen or broken into. Car crime seems to be our main problem area, with Pink Road and Loosley Row having more than their fair share. Please, if you can, garage your vehicles.

Unlocked garages are also being targeted. Garden furniture and tools are the items being taken. Please keep your garages locked.

I would like to keep you updated with the Ringmaster messages. Do you know who has access to the notice boards which are on the corner of Westlands Road, near the Village Hall and in Loosley Row? Could you please phone me and tell me.

Recently we were phoned and asked to keep an eye out for a certain vehicle that had been used in a robbery in Princes Risborough, I would like to be able to keep you informed of these events.

PC Price was available for security marking on Village Day, I hope lots of you took your bikes etc. to see him.

As there is nothing else to tell you, I should suppose that no news is good news.