The purpose of this section is to provide more background
information on what the Co-ordinator will need to know and from where more
information can be obtained.
The Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordinator has volunteered for an
important and necessary job. It requires some ability to administrate and
organise a collection of individual households into something like an effective
barrier against crime. You are not expected to cope alone,
however. Training and support is available.
There is no standard format or blueprint for Neighbourhood
Watch. It belongs to the people within it, not the Police. It will therefore
take whatever shape the members want, and will stand or fall on their own
support for it.
It is important for the co-ordinator to impress on members
that police can only react to a crime of which they have been made aware.
Incidents of crime frequently go unreported and communities become aggrieved if
nothing is done to resolve the problem. The police can only respond to a problem
if they are made aware that a problem exists. If you see something which you
think warrants a call to the police, make that call.
