The National Sheriffs’ Association pamphlet provided the following suggestions:

1. Watch over your neighbors’ property and report suspicious persons, vehicles or activity promptly to our local law enforcement agency.

2. Notify neighbors when you will be away – but don’t advise your absence to the entire community.  Know when your neighbors are away. 

3. Develop a system for recognizing legitimate neighborhood vehicles.

4. Establish a block parent program to provide a safe refuge for neighborhood children. 

5. Post large Neighborhood Watch   entrances to your community.  Smaller signs strategically placed on a fence, or building to announce your knowledge of crime prevention.

6. Cooperate with your local law enforcement agency in promptly reporting suspicious activity and crime.  Ask their support in training neighborhood residents in further crime prevention tips for home and property and how to recognize, describe, and report suspicious persons, conditions or activities. 

7. Increase awareness of suspicious persons or activities and inform the law enforcement agency so that they can respond. 

8. Ask door-to-door solicitors to show proper identification and a license to represent a legitimate organization.  Report to police, anyone without such proper identifications. 

 

 

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