Neighbourhood Watch

Your Neighbourhood Watch

Neighbourhood Watch is a partnership where people come together to make their communities safer. It involves your local Safer Community Team, Community Safety Departments of local authorities, other voluntary organisations and above all individuals who want to make their neighbourhoods a better place to live. It aims to help people protect themselves and their properties and help reduce the fear of crime by means of improved home security and greater vigilance. Neighbourhood Watch is now the largest national voluntary organisation covering 6 million households. Nearly half of all households in this county are now covered with over two thousand Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordinators working in partnership with the Police in the fight against crime.You can feel secure knowing that your neighbours are always keeping an eye on your property. You can also get lower insurance premiums from some insurance companies.
 
Gloucestershire Constabulary is indebted to co-ordinators for providing details of suspicious people and incidents in an effort to continue the fight against crime. In support of this, Gloucestershire Constabulary has helped develop an automated messaging system called 'Watchword' to keep co-ordinators abreast of current crime trends or on occasions seeking information from them in response to descriptions of vehicles or suspects.
 

Becoming involved in Neighbourhood Watch

If your area is not already covered by a Neighbourhood Watch scheme and you are interested in starting one the Neighbourhood Watch field officer for your area will be able to provide you with the necessary help to start a scheme.
 
This usually involves canvassing your neighbours for support, meeting informally to discuss how the scheme will operate and identifying a co-ordinator and deputy as the contacts to organise and run the scheme. As every scheme will vary in size and location the co-ordinators and members will determine how it will best operate to achieve its local aims.
 
Your local Neighbourhood Watch Field Officers for Stroud are Steve Neall, Eddie Whitlock and Rick Pellatt
 
Your local Neighbourhood Watch Field Officers for Gloucester are Roy Balgobin and David Mcteer