NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH NEWSLETTER: Edition 2 – Spring 2016

How can I get involved? To find out more, please contact your local Council office and ask for the PCSP. You can also find out about the scheme by contacting the PSNI (by using phone or email contact details outlined on back of this newsletter) What exactly is or you can go online to: www.nidirect.gov.uk/ Neighbourhood Watch? neighbourhood-watch Neighbourhood Watch is reduce crime and fear of crime in a partnership between local designated community areas, with communities, Police and Policing locally agreed Co-ordinators acting as LABEL HERE & Community Safety Partnerships the primary point of contact. (PCSP’s). The scheme aims to create Neighbourhood Watch can make a effective communication among real difference to your community and residents and the police to help to people’s lives.

Q. Am I expected to patrol the Frequently asked questions… ? A. Absolutely not. The police Absolutely nothing; only a Q. What area should a A. strongly discourage vigilantes Neighbourhood Watch little time and effort. Statutory and people who seek to take scheme cover? supporting agencies such as the the law into their own hands. A. The proposed area for a local PCSP and PSNI will assist Apart from the risk of physical scheme should always be clearly and support you. Signs will be injury, there can be serious legal defined. The size of a scheme provided and erected when a implications. can vary from a very small cul scheme becomes accredited. de sac to a small village. Good Q. Will having Neighbourhood Watch signs create the image practice dictates that a NW Q. Will membership give the that this area is not a safe co-ordinator should not be impression that I am working place to live? responsible for more than 50 for the police? Quite the opposite. Many people houses. Rural settings will also A. The fact is that you are not. A. feel reassured that this is a safe differ significantly from urban Everything said and written area when they see the signs areas where small numbers are about Neighbourhood Watch considered reasonable. and that neighbours are actively shows that you are in effect looking out for one another. Q. How much does it cost doing what every responsible Many Neighbourhood Watch to become involved in a citizen should be doing – schemes exist in areas where Neighbourhood Watch helping to create and maintain a no crime has occurred – Crime scheme? safe, crime-free community. Prevention is always the focus. FOREWORD From Coast & Glens PCSP Chair, Councillor James McCorkell Welcome to the second edition of the Causeway Coast and Glens Policing Help stop Bogus Callers and Community Safety Partnership’s Neighbourhood Watch Newsletter. I would like to take this opportunity to through the Nominate wish you all a Happy and Safe 2016. The Causeway Coast and Glens PCSP have spent the last 6 months developing and A Neighbour Scheme implementing a range of projects to help support and enhance safety within our WHAT IS THE NOMINATED older and more vulnerable members Council boundaries. We have championed NEIGHBOUR SCHEME? of the community. a number of initiatives in local schools and out in the community which we believe The scheme seeks the help of WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO? neighbours or relatives to check will positively contribute to the safety of If an unknown caller attends the address whether unexpected callers are residents and visitors alike and we are of your neighbour while they are alone genuine, especially those calling on committed to continue this positive work in the house, the caller will be shown more vulnerable members of the within our 2016/17 PSCP Action Plan. a card instructing them to contact you, community. Within this issue, you will have to their Nominated Neighbour. You will get a card to hold up to the opportunity to read more about one of our Your name, address and telephone window or door telling the caller that recent initiative