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Neighborhood Watch Programs in Utah
- Clearfield City
- Ivins City
- Draper City
- Provo City
- Rivergrove
- Saratoga Springs
- Salt Lake City
- West Valley City
Neighborhood Watch Programs In Utah:
Clearfield City
Neighborhood Watch
If you are interesting in starting a Neighborhood Watch program in your neighborhood, or would like to join an active program, please contact Detective Susan Anderson.
Office Phone: 801-525-2843
You may also fill out a survey/questionnaire by clicking here.
Clearfield City
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An active Neighborhood Watch (NW) is one of the most successful and least costly crime prevention programs available. Neighborhood Watch is a cooperative effort between the Draper Police Department and the citizens of Draper. It is designed to help reduce residential burglaries and other crimes. You will learn how to:
- Identify and report suspicious activity
- Better safeguard your home and property
- Be prepared in case of emergencies
By working with your neighbors and the police, you can help fight crime in your neighborhood the most effective way...before it begins! Although the police department provides guidance in organizing and maintaining Neighborhood Watch groups, community volunteers, such as yourselves, actually run the program. That way you can tailor the program to your own neighborhood's unique character.
How Do I Start a Neighborhood Watch in my area?
1. Talk to your neighbors to determine if they are interested in forming a Neighborhood Watch. An effective Neighborhood Watch requires at least 50% to 75% participation.
2. Plan your meeting; determine the best possible date, time, and location to hold your first meeting.
3. To schedule Draper Police Department participation at the first meeting, callSergeant Jackson at 576-6378 at least two weeks in advance of the date on which you would like to hold your first meeting. Leave a message, and we will call you back and arrange to have a police officer attend the first meeting to discuss Neighborhood Watch.
4. Publicize your meeting.
Once a Neighborhood Watch group is established in your area, members are encouraged to watch out for one another, target harden their homes, and hold regular meetings or neighborhood events at least twice a year. This way everyone can keep up-to-date on current crime trends and continue to build a sense of community.
In 1998, the Rivergrove Neighborhood began working with the Provo City Police Department to develop a Mobile Watch Program. This program is similar to Neighborhood Watch in that its goal is to reduce crime through citizen involvement. The theme for Mobile Watch is "Neighbors Helping Neighbors"
For more information about the Rivergrove Mobile Watch Program click HERE
SLC Mobile Neighborhood Watch
Click here to contact Mobile Neighborhood Watch
About Mobile Neighborhood WatchIn July of 1993, the Mobile Neighborhood Watch program was established. Articles of incorporation were written and the program became registered with the State of Utah as a non-profit corporation. A well structured set of by-laws were developed as well as policies and procedures to guide the operation of actual patrols. A coordinator’s Council was established with a Executive Director, Asst. Executive Director, Administrative Assistant, and a Training Coordinator. Area Coordinators were elected to represent a patrol area.
Since the Community Councils were already established, it became apparent that working within this frame work would well suit the fledgling Mobile Neighborhood Watch Program.
Over the last 5 years, the program has grown and expanded into every part of the city, with established mobile neighborhood watch groups in Capitol Hill, Avenues, South Central, East Central, Central City, Jordan Meadows, Fairpark, Rose park, Sugarhouse, West Pointe, Parleys, Glendale, Poplar Grove, Raintree, Peoples Freeway, and Fulton Street Business Watch.
There are over 1,300 people who have been trained and involved in Mobile Neighborhood Watch.
Joining Mobile Neighborhood Watch
Community Oriented Police acknowledges that the whole community is responsible for policing, not just the police. This approach encourages the unification of the community and the police in a equal partnership, working together through effective problem solving. In Salt Lake City, the Mobile Neighborhood Watch Program is one such approach that holds tremendous promise for empowering its resident to work with the police to effectively combat crime problems in the community together.
In order to provide a reduction in liability problems and to ensure a viable organization the following is required:
- Background investigations on volunteer applicants
- Extensive and ongoing training of volunteers - Liability waivers completed by volunteer participants
- Guidance on program’s policies and procedures
- Strong citizen organization
The real key to success of this program is strong adherence to the goals of Community Oriented Policing: A mutually beneficial partnership between the community and the police.
Chief Chris Burbank continues to support The Salt Lake City Mobile Neighborhood Watch Program with department funds and resources.
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The Mobile Watch Program is designed to reduce crime and enhance the quality of life in our community. Provo has the finest Mobile Watch program in Utah County and has recieved statewide recognition in reducing crime. We recognize that when the public and the police approach community problems in a spirit of cooperation, every challenge can be overcome.
Starting a Mobile Watch requires a commitment, as well as some of your time. In the end, though, you will take great pride in your accomplishments. Don't be afraid to encourage people. You are selling a product, an ideal -- the security of our neighborhoods, our homes and our families. The freedom from fear is a basic need for everyone. The police cannot do it alone. We need each other.
Don't let your friends and neighbors take the attitude that they can sit back and let others shoulder the work. Their participation is necessary for the program to work.
Encourage everyone to participate. People can help at different levels. It is a flexible program with a wide range of ways to serve.
The Goal Of Mobile Watch is to make the neighbohoods safe and comfortable for our citizens, while making it unsafe and uncomfortable for criminals.
Neighborhood Watch is a "team" approach in which the Provo Police Department works hand in hand with you and your neighbors to reduce crime in our community. The main objective of Neighborhood Watch is to reduce the incidence of crime by:
- Increasing citizen's awareness of burglary and other neighborhood crime through a continuing information program. (Literature distribution)
- Training citizens in the means of better property security and assist them in making their property more secure. (Operation Identification and Security Surveys)
- Developing a neighborhood action program where neighbors help watch each others property and report suspicious persons and activities to law enforcement agencies. (Neighborhood Watch)
Encouraging all citizens to cooperate with law enforcement agencies in reporting crime. Enlisting each home/apartment/business in Operation Identification.
Provo City Neighborhood Watch Volunteers
A coloring book suitable for elementary school ages is available for download here. The book can be printed by B&W or color printers. The file is 2.5M Adobe PDF format.
From the Neighborhood Watch Toolkit with permission of the National Sheriff's Association:
Toolkit Technology Instructors Book.pdf
Toolkit Training Instructors Handbook.pdf
Toolkit Training Participants Book.pdf
Powerpoint viewer - ppviewer.exe
Microsoft Word for Windows Viewer - wdviewer.exe
Contact the Utah Commission on Volunteers for other materials from the Neighborhood Watch Toolkit.
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Contact us at 801-799-3333 or write us at:
Salt Lake City Police Department
c/o Mobile Neighborhood Watch
315 East 200 South
Salt Lake City, Utah 84111
Salt Lake City
Mobile Neighborhood Watch
Board of DirectorsDan Holland, Executive Director
Tammie Nigh, Assistant Executive Director
Rita Adams, Secretary, 799-3440Other Mobile Watch Involvements
DUI Saturation Program
The Salt Lake City Police Department Motor Squad, Utah Highway Patrol, Mobile Neighborhood Watch, and MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Drivers) have joined forces in getting the drunk driver off our streets. Because of these efforts over the last year and a half, we have had only 1 DUI fatality in the year of 1997, and over four hundred arrests for DUI’s and related incidents.
These saturation’s are held on a monthly basis in different areas in Salt Lake City. For information please contact the Salt Lake City Police Department at 801-799-3333.
Special Neighborhood Project
The Police Department and the Mobile Neighborhood Watch volunteers go into problem areas with a specially equipped van and work together on such problems as vandalism, gang and drug activities, car strips and prowls, burglaries, and truancy. This program has been extremely effective in fighting crime in the neighborhoods.
Disabled Parking
Members of the Mobile Neighborhood Watch team are trained to monitor disabled parking violations and issue valid parking citations. Since implementing this program, over 4,000 tickets have been issued, and freeing up officers to work on more serious crimes.
Saratoga Springs
Neighborhood Watch
What is it?
Neighborhood Watch groups are composed of
City residents who live on the same block or
within sight of each other. The neighborhood
watch program teaches group members techniques
to reduce the risk of being victimized at home or
out in public, to recognize and report suspicious
activities, to secure their homes and identify their
property, and to eliminate vandalism and other
undesirable activities from the parks.
Neighborhood watch gives neighbors a chance to
learn each other's routines so that any unusual or
suspicious activities can be reported. Another
benefit of neighbors getting together is that they
become more of a community in the sense of
everyone knowing each other, looking out for
the kids, talking to each other when they meet
on the street and even having block parties or
other group events.
Neighborhood watch is a crime prevention
program. Although Saratoga Springs is still
a fairly small city, the crime rate is growing as
the population grows. Organization is the key
to crime prevention and Neighborhood Watch
groups are the building blocks of this organization.
There are many neighborhood watch groups
in the City and we are always working to start
more groups.
How do I start?
Contact your Neighborhood Watch coordinator,
indicated on the sidebar to the right. Meetings
are held Tuesday through Thursday at 6:00 pm
and 7:30 pm at the homes of residents.
Contact:
Brent Call
Neighborhood Watch Coordinator
830-1690
Brent is a retired Long Beach, California police
officer with over 28 years of experience. He
started the first neighborhood watch program
in Long Beach. Brent is a resident of Saratoga
Springs.
West Valley City Neighborhood Watch
West Valley City Neighborhood Services Office
Neighborhood Services Mission Statement:
The West Valley City Neighborhood
Services Office strives to preserve,
improve, and revitalize neighborhoods
by helping residents access City services.
An emphasis is placed on partnerships between residents, business owners,
elected officials, and City employees
to build and preserve clean, safe neighborhoods that reflect the diversity
of the City’s population.
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