Neighbourhood watch
Neighbourhood watch is a scheme where people keep an eye out for each other, and to reduce crime. It is nationaly recognised and supported by police and insurance companies.
We are a registered group, and we hold a licence for displaying the neighbourhood watch logo from the Home Office
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The Sussex Neighbourhood Watch Federation
have recently made Liam Mandville, chair of Brunswick & Regency
Neighbourhood Action Group, Coordinator for the Friends of Bedford square FoBSwatch,
the area coordinator for Brighton West.
This will enable all the
groups within the BN1/2/3 postcode area to email concerns or questions
to the committee meetings held regularly and liaise with the NPT to
spread reports to members.
‘Don’t tolerate it... report it’
- that’s the crucial New Year message from the Sussex Safer Roads
Partnership to residents in Sussex. By getting involved with
Operation Crackdown local residents can help make the roads of Sussex
safer for everyone in 2010 and beyond.
All is great in Bedford Square going by my stats at the moment, so thats good news! Nic
If you, or anyone you know, has been subject to cold callers over the last few days please make contact with Sussex Police on the non emergency telephone number 0845 60 70 999. You may have been approached by people offering to carry out work on your roof, driveway, fencing, trees or similar at your home address or you may have received a visit from someone stating they are from a utilities company but they did not have identification or you felt uneasy about them.
If you have been approached in a manner similar to the examples above and have refused, or accepted, their services please let us know. We will ask about dates and times of incidents and for descriptions of the people involved. If you have paid for work and it has not been carried out please still contact us. There is no shame in having believed what these people say; they are very convincing liars.admin
Dear Neighbourhood Watch Coordinator
I’d like to thank you for your help during the 2009 ‘Not In My Neighbourhood Week’. I’m thrilled that the NHW Federation agrees that NHW and the independent charity, Sussex Crimestoppers, can achieve mutual benefit by working together, helping us all to achieve our aim of keeping our communities safe.
I’m sure that many of you will be very familiar with the Home Office’s objective in holding this annual activity, but I think that a reminder may be useful for us all. The key objective of the week is to inform local people of the action that is being taken in their area to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour and to make their communities safer with the aim of:
increasing public confidence in their local crime reduction partnership and police,
to encourage the public to play their part, and provide reassurance to residents.
Dear all,
I thought I would send out a monthly Neighbourhood watch message from Police Headquarters to keep you all informed and ask that you pass on the details to those who do not have the internet.
The Police across the county were involved in the national campaign of Not in my Neighbourhood week between the 2-6 November.
A whole range of local initiatives were undertaken from street meetings to crime patrols and I would like to thank all those Neighbourhood Watch members who got involved.
The darker nights are now with us as the clocks have changed and I would ask all neighbourhood watch members to remind the public to leave a light on within their premises if they go out in the evening.
I’m delighted that Neighbourhood Watch and Sussex Crimestoppers are to be working closer during Not in My Neighbourhood Week from 2nd Nov to 6th Nov. This week will focus on local communities and provides the perfect opportunity for us to work together in partnership to fight crime and keep our neighbourhoods safe.
Crimestoppers is not the police, nor are we connected to Crimewatch on television. We’re an independent charity that operates the 24/7 telephone number 0800 555 111 which people can ring to pass on information about crimes anonymously, or they can use www.crimestoppers-uk.org. We then forward this anonymous information to the police. Not everyone is comfortable contacting the police directly as they may fear reprisals or retribution but Crimestoppers guarantees their anonymity.
We don’t ask the caller’s name, calls are never recorded or traced and no-one will ever have to go to court. If the information we are given leads to an arrest and charge, the caller could get a cash reward of up to £1,000, paid in such a way as to protect their identity. It’s important to know that Crimestoppers is not an emergency number though; if a crime is occurring, the police number 999 is always the number to use.
NHW
Did you recieve a neighbourhood watch newsletter through your door? If not, dont be suprised.
Recently a couple of PCSO's and a police volunteer delivered "do you want a watch group" style form through each door.
Thats around 32 letters. Depsite there being on average 5 flats per building, lets say 200 households. So they missed 170 people in their lefalet drop. This depsite the fact there is already a known (to the police) Neighbourhood Watch group operating within Bedford Square.
It is also listed on
http://www.mynhw.co.uk (the official government scheme who grants usage for the NHW logo)
http://www.neighbourhoodwatch.net/index.php?func=PageGroupHome&GroupId=91
http://www.nwinfo.co.uk
Contact us about Neighbourhood Watch here