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Community safety

 

How you can make your community safer. There are a lot of different things you can do to prevent crime in your street or neighbourhood.

 

You might like to join a Neighbourhood Watch scheme or become a Special Constable. Or, you could form a residents’association and become involved in activities to improve your neighbourhood, such as organising a ‘community clear up’of a run-down or grimy area.

 

Neighbourhood Watch

This is when a group of residents in a certain area (for example, on a street or an estate) agree to look out for one another. They keep an eye out for anything suspicious and tell one another or the police. It is sometimes called Home Watch.Neighbourhood Watch and Home Watch schemes can help to reduce crime and the opportunities for crime, can be a goodway to help people feel more secure in their neighbourhoods and can encourage neighbourliness and closer communities.

 

Special Constables

Special Constables are trained and uniformed police volunteers who patrol in their local community. They have full police powers.